>Predominantly a dialogue Use this process and you're most likely going to wind up hiring the candidate with the best conversation and storytelling skills. Th

>Predominantly a dialogue Use this process and you're most likely going to wind up hiring the candidate with the best conversation and storytelling skills. There are a lot of people who can make themselves look good on paper and in conversation that don't actually have a lot of skill. If you're determined to go through with it anyway, my suggestion would be to probe deeply into technical details and the engineering decisions they made in the past projects they worked on and what the results were and also to probe for their decision making process when solving a hypothetical or real engineering problem that you have. Note that asking people for deep details on past projects has its own problems; even when the candidate is attempting to answer with full honesty, memory is fallible and highly variable between people.