You sound exactly like someone I would want to work for. Let someone's experience speak for itself, and if you're unsure that they can do it, give them a micro project.
There's been a lot of times in my career where I was placed in a situation where I had no idea what I was working with at all. I had to come up with a solution that to my knowledge didn't exist yet. Something like hooking up 3rd party APIs to a very custom CMS.
I have been thrown into the sharks, and I always figured it out in an acceptable amount of time. My boss came to realize he could always count on me to do that over 6 years. I think as an interviewer that should be your primary concern, can they learn x quickly? It's expensive to hire a Developer and I realize that's pretty scary if you own your own company. BUT if you hire someone that's quick to learn new things, you don't lock your business into very specific technologies that go away with the dinosaur, and you can branch out into other services.
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You sound exactly like someone I would want to work for. Let someone's experience speak for itself, and if you're unsure that they can do it, give them a micro project.
There's been a lot of times in my career where I was placed in a situation where I had no idea what I was working with at all. I had to come up with a solution that to my knowledge didn't exist yet. Something like hooking up 3rd party APIs to a very custom CMS.
I have been thrown into the sharks, and I always figured it out in an acceptable amount of time. My boss came to realize he could always count on me to do that over 6 years. I think as an interviewer that should be your primary concern, can they learn x quickly? It's expensive to hire a Developer and I realize that's pretty scary if you own your own company. BUT if you hire someone that's quick to learn new things, you don't lock your business into very specific technologies that go away with the dinosaur, and you can branch out into other services.