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by brown9-2 5375 days ago
Perhaps judging them on previous projects or open source work they have contributed to would be a better approach.

The problem with this - ignoring the open source part for a second - is that it is very hard to accurately judge someone's contributions to a project at their previous job from their verbal description alone.

Also, you run the risk of discarding candidates who had the misfortunate of working on boring projects at boring companies.