> Ultimately it seems like there is a soft element to interviewing that is being tossed out now, which is: do I think we can work with this guy/gal? A colleagu

> Ultimately it seems like there is a soft element to interviewing that is being tossed out now, which is: do I think we can work with this guy/gal? A colleague offered this simple heuristic for the soft side of [the] interview: "If they are going to be equal or junior teammates, I ask myself, 'Would I feel comfortable sitting in a conference room with this person and hashing out a design or troubleshooting a problem for two hours?' If I'm evaluating someone who is going to be senior to me, or my direct boss, I ask myself, 'Would I feel comfortable following this person's technical instructions if they handed them to me in a document?'" In my personal professional opinion, this measure is more useful to an engineering org. than any "Stump the Chump" style technical-trivia screening.