> Would you be willing to disclose your personal favorite measuring stick? Success is easy, failure is not. Step 1 - assess candidate knows the tech first (syn

> Would you be willing to disclose your personal favorite measuring stick? Success is easy, failure is not. Step 1 - assess candidate knows the tech first (syntax, nomenclature). Step 2 - provide candidate with a problem that they can't solve and observe how they handle failure. A Kobayashi Maru type of scenario. After that, trial period of <n> months to observe how the introduction of new candidate changes team's dynamics. This is not, by any means, "the best" scenario but it beats "let's solve a trigonometry problem using python/c/c++" because it places the candidate in a situation that occurs during work.