w3matter has an interesting approach to hiring coders: make them write some code. It lets you have apple-to-apple comparisons with code samples and weeds out the folks who pad their resumes with buzzwords.

Of course, if you can solve those problems and are working (in the US) for $18 - $25/hour, you're grossly underselling yourself. But I still like the recruiting idea: a publicly-available set of problems close to the problem domain.

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