I can fully relate to this problem. Recently, I had an opportunity to take part in the recruitment process where I had to solve task by task in about 1.5 hour long meeting. There were 2 other developers watching my shared screen and following my every step. As I get the idea of live coding I must admit that it may work only when it's well prepared. I had full repository of tasks in multiple directories without knowledge about how many task there are at all and how many left to the end. It was hard to focus although I had a chance to use Google I wasn't feeling good about it as task where kinda generic, school-like not real-life problems. As I searched for a tip... I was getting stackoverflow solutions in the first search results (and I was like.. What am I suppose to do right now, ignore the answers? Copy them or what? Interviewers reminded in silence). From my point of view it was weird, I didn't feel like it made any sense. I doubt you can properly examine a developer this way.
I can fully relate to this problem. Recently, I had an opportunity to take part in the recruitment process where I had to solve task by task in about 1.5 hour long meeting. There were 2 other developers watching my shared screen and following my every step. As I get the idea of live coding I must admit that it may work only when it's well prepared. I had full repository of tasks in multiple directories without knowledge about how many task there are at all and how many left to the end. It was hard to focus although I had a chance to use Google I wasn't feeling good about it as task where kinda generic, school-like not real-life problems. As I searched for a tip... I was getting stackoverflow solutions in the first search results (and I was like.. What am I suppose to do right now, ignore the answers? Copy them or what? Interviewers reminded in silence). From my point of view it was weird, I didn't feel like it made any sense. I doubt you can properly examine a developer this way.
100%!! When I had my 1st interview of this kind it felt like cheating to use Google and SO. Didn't know what to do, either.