That may be true and maybe I'm taking a biased point-of-view as someone who is shy/socially awkward, but I'm pretty sure that people who fit that description ar

That may be true and maybe I'm taking a biased point-of-view as someone who is shy/socially awkward, but I'm pretty sure that people who fit that description are going to have a hard time distinguishing themselves in an interview as someone who is going to draw a crowd on a Sunday. Unless the kind of folks you like to hang out with on a Sunday are the kind who are quiet, keep to themselves and can help you debug your code. But if that's the case, then you're just looking for good engineers who aren't jerks. That's not how I read #1.