[erichurkman]

To your latter point, any time we do technical exercises, we _always_ let the interviewee use their own IDE. Nowadays it's easy because most people have laptops, though we do offer to set one up if they do not have a laptop to bring.

Their choice of toolsets and setup can also be a really interesting discussion topic. More than once during an interview, someone has shown me something really cool that I adopted (new key binding, a new tool, a particular way someone had their terminals split-paned, etc).

[huac]

I've done a couple interviews over screenshare, where I setup my own IDE, and liked that more than the typical Google doc or CoderPad

[dmoy]

What if the candidate doesn't have a machine of their own (company owned)?

[erichurkman]

We have a laptop they can use and make the offer that they can use it. It hasn't happened often, but I could easily see it being set up with a few different environments already. (Adding that to my todo list.)