&gt; I think you could devise the pair programming type interview to still allow for 1 hour chunks<p>I try and do my interviews this way. While I am required to use the whiteboard and the interviewee is required to write on it, I try to make it as clear as possible that we can brainstorm&#x2F;strategize on the problem together.<p>Of course I&#x27;ve asked the same few questions probably 100 times now and have seen them solved every which way so I have to play a little dumb sometimes.<p>Same problem occurs in a &quot;real&quot; pair programming environment too, though.<p>Interviewing is hard, and it&#x27;s easy to throw stones at companies who don&#x27;t do it the way you want it done.