interviewing "under the hood"

[dan_roberts -at- adp -dot- com]

I'm about to start interviewing for a couple of positions. I'm curious
about the list's reactions to one aspect to how I want to conduct these
interviews.

I'm a bit of a "under the hood" kinda guy - sloppy or inefficient HTML,
manual formatting in Word, that sort of thing - drives me nuts. Therefore,
when I interview candidates, I'd like to see the code underneath the
writing samples they provide. I think this will help me estimate their
"technical" expertise <sp?> in the tools we use here.

I'm sure there would be some hesitation for a candidate to do this -
intellectual property rights, the risk that I might see a particularly
cool way of handling code or solving a problem that could allow me to
solve some of our problems, w/o hiring the candidate. OTOH, seeing clean,
elegant code could make me even *more* likely to hire the candidate.

So, I'm curious to know how the list would respond to a request like this.
Comments?

dan

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