Comment Assign homework and make it open book (Score 1) 743
The last job interview I had gave me homework to do. They pointed me to a public dataset, and had me write a web-app that could read and display it. Language, tools, platform, etc. didn't matter. Even getting it all done didn't matter. But I had to explain why I chose what I did, and how I would have implemented the parts I didn't finish.
This is pretty much like the real world is - where it's an open book kind of world. Where you can Google, grab open source libs, etc. A job where you couldn't look things up would be a kind of odd one.