I've re-read the article and couldn't find anything that would suggest the requirement is fake, as in, the juice is actually not needed. > One important condit

I've re-read the article and couldn't find anything that would suggest the requirement is fake, as in, the juice is actually not needed. > One important condition is that the company has the hallowed tradition of starting the day’s event at 7 in the morning, with a toast to success, using Orange Juice. So it's a hypothetical situation, in which the company really needs the juice. In reality, you probably need something else: > It helps if people come up with a question or a set of questions that serve the equivalent of the Orange Juice Test question. > If you are a technical manager, it can be as simple as ‘ How do you program feature X or Y ?’ Isolate a hard part of what you need, and ask about the cost of it - that's how I understood the article.