I've seen people give weak in person coding interviews then done perfectly fine on a take home and went on to be fine on the job.
To date, I've never gone on to regret hiring someone who blitzed the in person coding exercise.
To date, I've never gone on to regret hiring someone who blitzed the in person coding exercise.
There's a separate problem here for hiring developers specifically, where realistically it should be easy to bring someone on limited term (say 3 months) and see how they work, but compensation and benefits in the US absolutely in no way support a system like that.