I side along with Ski here---   soft skills and open-ended questions that 
really try to help nail down just what KIND of *person* this is--  is this 
someone that will get along well with the other co-workers?   Is this someone 
that, at 10pm on a Saturday night, will remote-in to the office to examine and 
deal with a situation that's causing alarms?    Is this someone that will 
always work to get the job DONE, or does this person always head out of the 
office as soon as the clock hits 5pm exactly?    And so on.

Yes of course, technical questions are of course par for the course, but as a 
hiring manager, I have discovered (after a few hiring 'mistakes'), that first 
and foremost, I'm hiring a PERSON- it matters not (to me) whether or not 
they're a walking man page or an internals guru.    In some situations, I think 
the technical questions can be overdone.

-kcb

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