One of my favorite interviews ever was squarely in-between whiteboarding and take-home. I was put in a room by myself with access to the internet and a computer

One of my favorite interviews ever was squarely in-between whiteboarding and take-home. I was put in a room by myself with access to the internet and a computer and asked to write a specific game in any language I wanted. The rules of the game were given, but everything else was up to me. The main requirements were to be able to make a move, and to calculate the current score. For extra credit, make an AI player. There were other phases of the interview, coding wasn’t the whole thing, but I really enjoyed it. I bombed the object modeling on a whiteboard part of the interview, but the company made a great offer anyway based on being able to code. I’m modeling my hiring now on this type of interview because it was both fun and effective.