[ghettoCoder]

It’s hard to properly assess someone’s intellect, overall skills and, ability to adapt & learn in a few hours of interviews. Much easier to pass candidates through a sieve and pick from the remaining few.

Good luck in your search.

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

Seriously? You can't suss that out over the course of several hours of conversation?

[bradknowles]

Unfortunately, no. People can be really good at covering up for massive inadequacies, and it can take weeks or months to really start figuring them out.

It’s a long tail problem.

Two things you can do that will help is to make your hiring process much more data driven, and to put your people who would be working with them on the team of people that will be doing the interviews, and give them extensive training on how to properly perform those interview panels.

You could also follow that up with take-home example work, for some cases.

But the real trial is those first few weeks and months, where they have to know that they are being carefully evaluated, and where if things don’t work out then you can make sure that you can easily let them go.

I recently joined a new employer in October, so I am acutely aware of this situation.