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I'm not looking gor a dev that knows it all by heart. I'm looking for a dev who knows how to get information about stuff he doesn't know.

A take home interview therefore gives me a much better picture of the real-life skill level of a candidate compared to a very stressful situation like a real-time whiteboard interview.

Also: Give your candidate a real problem to solve and pay them for their time!

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There's a famous quote that is attributed to Albert Einstein: “Never memorise something that you can look up.” It is said to be related to a time when a colleague asked him for his phone number, and he reached for his telephone directory to look it up.

At an interview, Albert Szent-Györgyi states basically the same: "You shouldn't fill your head with "szecska" (chaff?). You should keep knowledge in books where you can look it up and use your head only for thinking."

The whole interview was inspiring. It's about learning and exploration. Worth watching if you understand Hungarian: https://youtu.be/rtqhA4TtBrI

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