Absolutely! If you have 10 people on your team that all solve a problem one way, and you interview a candidate that solves it a completely different way, that's

Absolutely! If you have 10 people on your team that all solve a problem one way, and you interview a candidate that solves it a completely different way, that's an enormous asset in future problem solving. Diversity of experiences makes for better solutions. Leslie Lamport said the only reason he came up with such a novel way of modeling distributed systems was because he was the only person looking at the problem with a background in mathematical physics. Once he viewed it through the lens of general relatively, spacetime and causality it was trivial - and he admits this. An ACM hall of fame paper. "Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System." And was the birth of modern distributed systems understanding. 1. http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pubs.html#time-clocks http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pubs.html#time-clocks