[dcole2929]

The single best interview experience I've seen was given by Oracle when I worked there a few years ago.

The onsite was a panel interview where candidates were given a laptop with a configured IDE and codebase with a specific set of bugs. Their task was to debug the various issues and complete as many as they could with the understanding that it was not expected for them to solve them all or even most of them. There were also tests to help them. And a different section of the interview asked them to right some tests and some code for again brain dead easy coding algorithms like reverse a string.

I thought it was great because it closely resembled what being a dev is like and actually tested for the skills we cared about. No you didn't get to use your own custom vim configuration but I'm not sure how that would have really worked even if they wanted.