I effectively did this. No whiteboarding, no code stuff, just a phone call and an onsite with coworkers and boss. Small team, range of technical talent, but a m

I effectively did this. No whiteboarding, no code stuff, just a phone call and an onsite with coworkers and boss. Small team, range of technical talent, but a much better fit for me compared to the larger (or smaller) standard advertising companies in the area that run 4-6 hour take home tests followed by a day of whiteboarding. You do not need to haze candidates, but you do need to test for basic ability. As for vetting the company from my side: there's a bunch of mentoring and refactors that needed to happen with prior code, sure, but nothing game-breakingly broken. I've viewed this as a great mentorship setup, not as a "time to post another N+1 select to dailywtf".