Same here. It's also important to set the tone from the start of the interview, that what's wanted is pretty candid, genuine discussion between colleagues. Ot

Same here. It's also important to set the tone from the start of the interview, that what's wanted is pretty candid, genuine discussion between colleagues. Otherwise, people so conditioned to the conventional BS interview rituals might do that mode. Which is absolutely not what you'd want from an engineering colleague. And BS mode in interview context makes it harder to see what they'd be like to work with, and raises the question of why they're doing that mode. (IME, most people seem to get the desired tone instantly, or within moments.)