Someone should sort a consultancy similar to pivotal where they come in and teach you how to interview. Most SMBs are terrible at it. There are also different

Someone should sort a consultancy similar to pivotal where they come in and teach you how to interview. Most SMBs are terrible at it. There are also different 'best' engineers for the role/company. A company may say they want the 'best' but they really want an engineer that is going to stick around and solve their boring problems in boring ways. Even the edgiest startups likely have mostly boring problems to solve. I see it as sort of a moneyball situation. You're looking for value. You can spend a lot of money and time searching for that unicorn 10x engineer when you could have hired 2-3 3x engineers and overall spent a lot less time and money and got your product out the door months earlier.