I think you have a very enlightened approach, Edw519. I actually take it one step further and ask candidates to work on problems or portions of problems the co

I think you have a very enlightened approach, Edw519. I actually take it one step further and ask candidates to work on problems or portions of problems the company actually has. E.g., how would you approach fixing this bug. It also has the side benefit of letting candidates see our codebase, bug tracking, etc. As far as asking how technologies work under the hood. I really don't care if a web developer knows how pointers work, etc. If they can consistently get challenging problems done, that's all I need to know.