You're approaching hiring from the wrong angle. You're looking at evidence and letting that decide what you hiring criteria should be, when what you should be d

You're approaching hiring from the wrong angle. You're looking at evidence and letting that decide what you hiring criteria should be, when what you should be doing is the exact opposite. Start with writing a set of criteria for the role you want to hire and then measure the evidence against that. So for example if you criteria is "writes well commented code" you could use the candidate's code on github for evidence to support that (although a better approach would be to evaluate a work-sample test).