The benefits of a tech interview is that you have an opportunity to present a challenge to the candidate that contract work may not have. I increasingly use pro

The benefits of a tech interview is that you have an opportunity to present a challenge to the candidate that contract work may not have. I increasingly use problems I have run into myself while working on the product we are hiring for. It's good to know how a candidate will solve these critical problems, because bad solutions can be really bad for your team and product. Contract work will also eat up time just getting the dev running the development environment and leak code/product secrets.