A person who ranks highly in a lot of those areas is not sitting down with you for an interview. Instead, you're buying him/her dinner a nice restaurant and yo

A person who ranks highly in a lot of those areas is not sitting down with you for an interview. Instead, you're buying him/her dinner a nice restaurant and you will discuss how each of you can come up with a mutual agreement that benefits you both, like any other deal between equals. More importantly, this "matrix" was clearly written by a programmer, and not a business thinker. There is no way I would even give a rat's ass if a candidate used menus or keyboard shortcuts in an IDE, any more than I'd care which side they part their hair on. What's left out: Communication: - Can not only communicate clearly, but can adapt language to a given situation to ensure clarity without creating offence. Understands not everyone is a programmer, and doesn't fault them for it. Business: - Understands normal business flows and how computer programs can make these flows more efficient. - Knows when to call it shippable and move on - Understands that favorite os/language/platform is not used exclusively, and doesn't intend to rewrite entire systems because the output is a period instead of a comma. etc, etc.