Comment by smackfu
11 years ago
This just gets back to the question of whether you are hiring based on interview skills or coding skills. If someone has shipped code that shows high coding skills, why would you reject them based on interview skills, if it's a coding job?
You could still interview an experienced person. On the technical side, you could see if they're familiar with your specific stack, and know how to handle version control etc. Aside from all that, you can make sure they share the team's goals, are willing to use version control the way the rest of the team does, stuff that's not about skill.