“Remember that much programming can be simply and clearly done using only primitive types, data structures, plain functions, and a few library classes. The whole apparatus involved in defining new types should not be used except when there is a real need.” Bjarne Stroustrup, "The C++ Programming Language, Special Edition"

Play Minesweeper! hahaha that's great!

"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html[^]

That wasn't really that awful, relatively speaking (this IS Microsoft, afterall). I actually enjoy using Visual Studio!

I think a short 7 to 10 question technical test would be highly appropriate. Don't make it too difficult.