[realusername]

Well to each their own, I've never seen any correlation between those and actual tech, product or interpersonal skills during the recruitment I've made.

I'm not sure how knowing the SOLID acronym would make you a better communicator anyway even in theory. Maybe you could argue for tech skills even if I disagree but the other ones aren't even remotely close.

To gauge for problem solving skills, asking for problem solving on examples proved to work very well in my experience, you instantly see the candidate's priorities and thinking flow.

Edit: Also I do think KISS and DRY are much more widespread terms across the industry than SOLID is but I would not use them either in interviews personally