At my last job, I was in the room when my boss interviewed a new candidate. My job was to guide the new candidate with the paid homework that was to be returned

At my last job, I was in the room when my boss interviewed a new candidate. My job was to guide the new candidate with the paid homework that was to be returned for all the team to evaluate. He did not believe in the Q and A tech interview. He felt it was unfair and mostly useless. The one thing he always did was disqualify any candidate that could not answer the basic questions about our in-house stack. If you did not know at least the basics, my boss moved on to the next candidate. Fair or unfair it did not matter. He had enough experience to know that it takes time for people to learn a new framework and language plus our in-house procedures. It was always more productive to grab someone with experience. I suspect most employers think the same way. At one time, employers would take a chance and time to bring someone up to speed since it was harder to find the right person. The developer pool has expanded so much that now it's easier to find someone with experience.