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I use programming questions, but I do have certain ones that I bring out time and time again. It's not a laziness thing if it's being done for the right reason. The first thing is, we work in a fairly specific domain so it's an opportunity for me to assess whether or not people can actually answer questions about things that matter to us. Secondly, I'm not bothered about the candidate whiteboarding a solution or typing it in, I want them to engage with me so that they get a chance to find out the types of things we need - the interview is as much about whether they want to work for us as it is the other way around. I'm also not bothered about someone having a confidence issue talking to me in the interview - what I want is for them to give me some part that we can open a dialogue about; the classic case for me is if they say they use TDD, I would be looking to see how this plays into their answers. We can discus issues such as testing asynchronous code, for instance.

TL;DR - they can be useful, but you shouldn't be looking for textbook answers. It's about a dialogue.
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