I do a tree-search-ish thing when interviewing people. I’ll start with a super basic question about something beginner-ish on their resume. If they can’t answer

I do a tree-search-ish thing when interviewing people. I’ll start with a super basic question about something beginner-ish on their resume. If they can’t answer that, the interview is politely wrapped up. I’ve eliminated a surprising number of people who had jQuery on their resume by asking them to write code that will make a div with the ID “mydiv” disappear if the user clicks a button with the id “mybutton”. After that I ask a super difficult or niche trivia question like “in CSS, what two overflow properties cannot be used together?” If I’m hiring a mid-level frontend developer and they nail that one, I go “fantastic, great answer, do you have any questions for us?” And the interview can end early. But if they miss that, no sweat, I’ll start asking more mid-level technical questions to figure out where they’re at.