[majormajor]

I try to start there, but most candidates act shockingly uninterested in going into details of their past work. I've directly asked about what the interesting parts of a project were to them and gotten things like "I had to learn ES6 and I hadn't used much JS recently" without much elaboration able to be teased out.

If you can't give me good examples from your past, I'm going to throw my own questions at you. I tend not to do coding on the whiteboard, though. Lots more boxes and lines and schema and system interaction-y stuff.