> Jm2c but interviews tell you absolutely none, nothing, about what kind of a professional the candidate is. With the caveat that I have not been on the hiring

> Jm2c but interviews tell you absolutely none, nothing, about what kind of a professional the candidate is. With the caveat that I have not been on the hiring side of things myself, my feeling about this is that it can—if a) the person you're interviewing is acting fully in good faith, b) they're not the type of person who gets so nervous about interviews that it skews their whole personality temporarily, and c) your interview process is actually decently-designed (I don't think leetcode or any type of "gotcha"-questions will give you a good picture of how professional a candidate is, nor will an interview for any kind of technical position designed entirely by nontechnical people with no domain input). The big, big problem is the genuinely small proportion of people who come into a job interview in bad faith, seeking not to demonstrate but to hide their true skill and personality, because (rightly or wrongly) they believe it will hinder their chances of a good position.