It's pretty controversial, but where I work, we have two questions we're looking to answer: 1. Can this person do things with software? 2. Do we want to work

It's pretty controversial, but where I work, we have two questions we're looking to answer: 1. Can this person do things with software? 2. Do we want to work with this person? We screen for 1 in a short tech screen. We screen for 1&2 by having onsite pairing sessions, typically a day. Mysteriously, having people work on real work with real potential co-workers in the way we actually work is a really good indicator of whether people can work on real work with real potential co-workers in the way we actually work.