There&#x27;s a difference between being able to come up with a solution in 1 hour vs being able to come up with a solution in 1 hour on a whiteboard, with no internet access, and with someone breathing down your neck the whole time.<p>If your company has a genuine need to screen candidates for their ability to perform under the special conditions of the latter, then by all means, set up your interviews with those special conditions. Otherwise, I feel you&#x27;d be better served by an interview that more closely emulates the actual working environment that your employees work under.<p>My ideal technical interview would be one where the candidate is assigned a problem that is representative of the work that they&#x27;re being hired for, and then left alone to work on it for an hour or two in their own preferred working environment, and <i>then</i> the interviewer and candidate can meet up and demo the solution and discuss implementation details.