Interviewing for abstract qualities is horse shit. If they have paper experience (or a solid github), pick apart their decisions and lessons from the experienc

Interviewing for abstract qualities is horse shit. If they have paper experience (or a solid github), pick apart their decisions and lessons from the experience. Look for strong opinions. If they're "Jr" and have no paper experience, summarize some problem that your company faces every day and ask them how they would solve it. For Hacker News, that might be how they'd store a comment tree in the database and how they'd render it to the user. Did they forsee any problems? Were they self-aware and recognized what they didn't know?