In our interview process, there was a telephone call before the assessment and an in person interview after to cover off questions and getting a feel for the em

In our interview process, there was a telephone call before the assessment and an in person interview after to cover off questions and getting a feel for the employer. For point 2, I think that can be a fair criticism for development roles. Many developers don't have Github though. For point 3, our assessment was DevOps focussed, and early on the examples used Puppet. We had quite a few candidates that previously used only Chef, gave it a go using Puppet, weren't sure if this was idiomatic and wrote comments on how they would have done it in Chef. Those candidates all got hired.