[Naracion]

(coming from the standpoint of a historically non-technical individual contributor who is leaning towards technical now, and asking because I want to learn):

But isn't that exactly why you as an interviewer would pose a problem, set up the context that is potentially similar to the work your project would require, and see how the interviewee navigates that?

[Swizec]

Yes, it is. I would want to know how a person solves my problems.

And I sure would hope they bring all their experience to bear! Just because they learned about CDNs at their previous job and “everything is proprietary”, I don’t want them to suddenly forget how CDNs work.

Very little is actually unique between software businesses. We’re mostly just doing data bureaucracy.