Thanks for the article. The advise against level 5 questions is interesting. I found them to be very useful for answering if a candidate has really applied in

Thanks for the article. The advise against level 5 questions is interesting. I found them to be very useful for answering if a candidate has really applied in the field before, especially comparing two big fields against each other. For example asking if they prefer sql or nosql. Anyone who doesn't answer some variant of "it depends" has probably not had enough hand on with either of them. But regardless if the candidate has a strong opinion or not, and regardless if it's the same opinion as yours, the answer is going to give you endless amount of openers for dialogue and follow-up questions on how they reached that conclusion and in which projects they used such techniques and how it worked out. As the articles notes, the questions can easily be misperceived as checking if the candidate has the same opinions as yourself, or you becoming outsmarted by eloquence. Since you are yourself asking and evaluating the questions you have to ensure this doesn't become the case, by putting opinions aside and only asking about fields which you yourself deeply understand. Not sure if it might be off-putting for a candidate to get this type of question though, if they don't understand the deeper purpose of the question? Should you give a disclaimer that you are not actually not interested in their final opinion?