Is this a good test for a selenium developer?

Question

My boss has given me the assignment of interviewing one of the new automation engineers. The only task left is the technical one, and I have been thinking about a good test that I could give him. I was thinking of giving him the assignment "make a Sudoku bot with webdriver". Is this good? Too difficult? I really want to make sure that we hire a good automation tester.

Answer 1

Well I mean the creation of the bot itself is fairly trivial, but creation of a Sudoku solving algorithm/ logic would be fairly intensive. Not sure if one exists and is publicly available out there, but that's the real snag here. I would say maybe just have him write a bot that creates a new Facebook account or something and then messages someone? Seems to use more UI skills without relying on knowledge of solving puzzles.