attention to quality a.k.a thorough testing, i require that all interviews with dev candidates include being drilled on automation and testing. curiosity to le

attention to quality a.k.a thorough testing, i require that all interviews with dev candidates include being drilled on automation and testing. curiosity to learn new techniques and technologies, is this person playing around with new stacks, languages, etc in his/her spare time, does he/she have open source projects, that tells me that this person is quite passionate about development. i think another one is comprehension of the requirements, often times i see poor developers jump into a solution without fully understanding the requirements.