"Interviews are almost worthless for telling how good of a team member someone will be" Just like "avoid the 0.1x programmers", interviews are for weeding out

"Interviews are almost worthless for telling how good of a team member someone will be" Just like "avoid the 0.1x programmers", interviews are for weeding out the really bad team mates. They aren't for finding the best ones. For instance, I and a female programmer do the interviews. During one interview, my coworker kept asking questions of the candidate, and he would not look at her when he talked. He would actually talk to me instead while answering her questions. My first through was that he was misogynistic, which is an automatic disqualification. But even if he was just shy, he's going to have to work with her daily for the first few months, and be in meetings with her for the entire time he worked there. That's an extreme example, but there were plenty of instances where we were looking for the best candidate, and the interview made the decision easier when the code hadn't. We can only hire 1 candidate, and we have to do what we can to pick the one that will do the best work and get along best with the team. That's what interviews are for.