> the brutal reality is that the vast majority of candidates don't panic during interviews and can in fact demonstrate their skills
For a given job most candidates actually don't get hired, often because they are not a good fit but many times because they are too nervous to think straight.
I've done hundreds of interviews and that is only very rarely a problem. Normally candidates aren't nervous, but just can't program. They don't have the knowledge, they're flummoxed by basic errors from their compiler/interpreter even when they got to pick what language they used, they're asked to write something (anything) in a language they advertise knowing on their CV and then admit they don't actually know it, etc.
