[cynoclast]

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.

[grumple]

And the surgeon doesn't know what surgery they are going to be asked to do or why.