Candidates have different strengths and weaknesses. Sure, I'll ask the base questions but in terms of assessing their coding ability I'll go with whatever they

Candidates have different strengths and weaknesses. Sure, I'll ask the base questions but in terms of assessing their coding ability I'll go with whatever they feel the most comfortable with. If they have github, I'll ask them to walk me through a few files, asking their reasons for doing X, why not Y - what does this do? If they prefer take-home, I'll give them something to create/improve. Want to do something now? knock yourself out - with or without me watching. I don't need to sort the candidate into an ordered list, just filter out the "over confident". The questions I want answering is: Can they actually code? Does their skill match their experience? Is their skill level similar to the codebase?