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by papito 1088 days ago
I've succeeded with interviews looking for three things:

* Find a candidate who takes apart with ease a couple of rather rudimentary programming problems. NOTHING crazy. Something practical and easy to understand the purpose of.

* Look for passion in technology and coding. Ask them what they would learn or do if they didn't have to work for a year.

* Look for rapid upward trajectory (potential). Someone doing the same thing for 5 years, meh. Someone going from data entry to automating a gnarly task with Go in a year - give me a ticket on that rocket ship.