I couldn't agree more. (My followup rant is general, and I have no knowledge of what's going on at GL.) > Real Ops candidates are going to seem lacklustre comp

I couldn't agree more. (My followup rant is general, and I have no knowledge of what's going on at GL.) > Real Ops candidates are going to seem lacklustre compared to web devs when giving web dev coding tasks and inteview questions. This drives me insane. I think 50% of my comment history this year is about how not to botch an interview. > You probably aren't going to ask them anything actually relevant to their ability to do Ops well because you just don't know. Yes. You won't be able to quiz that person. You can take a thoughtful look at experience and talk about that, though. > hire based on experience Yup. One of the spook factors at any company is when I see it only hiring down, i.e., lower than the aggregate skill level of its current team. If the VP of engineering knows more about each concentration area than the people he's hiring, there's a storm a-brewin'.