[muzani]

It's pretty simple - find people who are smart and get things done.

Do test their technical ability, the ability to actually do the job. Fizzbuzz filters a remarkable number of people, so you don't actually have to make it too tough. One of my favourite tests is seeing if someone can reverse a linked list, or do stuff like a FIFO queue with a filter.

You often want to filter overly clever people. So you might play with time. Give them too much time to do a simple implementation, but too little to do a full one.

And then you want to filter for people who just dumbly copy paste answers. This is most fun as a conversation around certain topics. It doesn't have to be a technical challenge. I've had a lot of fun just discussing architecture and tech stacks with applicants. How would you solve this problem? What stack? What's the drawbacks?