Personally I am a big believer in mentoring and growing people at their place of work, can't speak for others. The candidates I don't want however are those who

Personally I am a big believer in mentoring and growing people at their place of work, can't speak for others. The candidates I don't want however are those who display no interest in their profession outside of their direct work related tasks. Even if you work on some legacy technology, you can at least read about new trends and best practices. It's sometime shocking to me when I get candidates who seem to have lived under a rock for the last 5 years and aren't aware of what's out there. I'll definitely keep the interview going with a person who says "No, I have not directly worked with React but I've been reading about it and this is how I understand it's different from XYZ framework I currently use." vs "React, Angular, GraphQL, SCSS, sorry no, I don't know anything about them. We only use Apache Struts."