>I also need to recognize that I'll have people coming to interview, having read the "Cracking the Interviews of FAANGs and All the Other Companies Who Act Like

>I also need to recognize that I'll have people coming to interview, having read the "Cracking the Interviews of FAANGs and All the Other Companies Who Act Like Stodgy Fortune 500 Hiring Large Numbers of Commodity Brogrammers" prep books, and probably seen that in some/most of their other interviews. :) And if someone shows up expecting the current usual rituals, I shouldn't hold it against them, but rather, it's my responsibility to communicate that I'd like to try to do this a bit differently. >One fear is that I'll explicitly tell people I'm looking to do this "genuine", and some will interpret that as an empty platitude or conceit, in interview prep book behavioral right answer terms. :) This seems like a good problem to think about. I don't have a solution, but I think it's a good thread to pull.