This really just highlights the difference between the artificial coding interview via some web based half-assed IDE, and being watched coding on the job. The

This really just highlights the difference between the artificial coding interview via some web based half-assed IDE, and being watched coding on the job. The comparison would be more direct if the surgeon was asked to operate on a dummy using a kitchen knife in front of the interviewer. Then there's the problem that there's no way in hell a software company is going to let another company watch their employee work on proprietary code.