Specifically, I'm not sure these characteristics are the perfect set for all interviews. I only spent 5 minutes reading the article, after all :) But, I like t

Specifically, I'm not sure these characteristics are the perfect set for all interviews. I only spent 5 minutes reading the article, after all :) But, I like that these are all personality traits with no easy answer. I get the feeling that an interviewer trying to craft questions to test "grit" or "impact" will discover good stories about the candidate. They'll probably push the candidate to talk about real challenges, or explain below-the-waterline projects they thought were important. Assuming there's a technical screen that validates that they're woefully uneducated (I'm thinking FizzBuzz, not 3 hours of red-black trees), it feels like an interview designed to capture these attributes would be pretty probing, and if the topics were divided among different interviewers, they'd all get different angles on the candidate. That seems good. Interviewing for the nominal job description is easy to game. This checklist, if thoughtfully prepared for, seems harder to game.