For new grads, just let them in. Just make sure they know something so a simple coding exercise is maybe good there. For more senior people, actually talk about

For new grads, just let them in. Just make sure they know something so a simple coding exercise is maybe good there. For more senior people, actually talk about their resumes and try to understand what they did, why they did it, and importantly, if they actually did it. I never got asked anything about my previous experience when I got into my first faang beyond some superficial things like "what tools did you use". I've seen interviews where you actually have to present a thing you've done and then explain the decision making process behind it, tradeoffs, outcomes, etc. those are more common outside of CS and I'd like to see more of that in CS. Or hell, have them write an essay describing the tradeoffs about some theoretical engineering decision. That'll give me actual info on how a person thinks. For context, I used to work in self driving cars and had to interview many people who claimed to work in that field and claim to have worked on huge projects themselves. Then you dig deeper and it turns out they were part of a huge group, they never heard of this problem, that problem, never heard of this industry standard, etc. it's like, forget coding, this person doesn't even know the domain as much as they claim and not being upfront about that disqualifies you immediately in my books.