I still prefer to give a candidate the benefit of the doubt there, unless there is more supporting evidence. I have more sympathy towards people who may have n

I still prefer to give a candidate the benefit of the doubt there, unless there is more supporting evidence. I have more sympathy towards people who may have not been fortunate to have seen the more challenging aspects of development and help them get there - only 2 1/2 years ago, I was unemployed for the past 2 1/2 years out of grad school without any company having given me such a shot at any career, and here I am now as a lead frontend engineer who is trusted to solve any problem thrown at me and build a team. Just as I was pissed off that so many companies were originally dismissive of me despite my education pedigree, I try not to be dismissive of candidates because they didn't happen to use [insert feature]. Stuff like that is easily studied or taught, and I evaluate almost wholly on things that (almost) can't be studied since it pre-empts candidates from giving me answers that hide important characteristics about them.