[muzani]

Phone interviews are best for filtering for culture and personality fit. I certainly wouldn't ask a coding question on the phone, because there's a lot of muscle memory involved in coding.

I would only do phone interviews on someone completely faceless, perhaps from a job site. About 80% of people have just fine personalities.

It's usually easier to tell a person's personality by stalking them on social media. You probably just want to avoid the overwhelmingly negative or egoistic people.