[gorjusborg]

How would you feel about providing a chunk of code yourself, and being asked to work with it?

The interviewer could ask you about the code, and maybe ask for you to modify it?

It sort of shifts the burden to the interviewer to come up with reasonable changes on the fly, but would offer insight into the candidate's abilities on code they are familiar with.

[amozoss]

My favorite interview in the past was when the company took a ticket off the backlog and I asked questions to solve it. Aka they hired me for a half day.

They were available to ask questions, but mostly I was there figuring it out by myself.

In this case, I had never used golang before, but by the end of the half day, I had a solution I was happy with.

Sure they took a risk giving me access to the entire codebase... But as a tool to assess my ability it was top notch.

Later, when I was working there, that same ticket got prioritized and it ended up taking 3 or 4 days to solve by other team mates (my solution wasn't quite right).