I have personally given up on "whiteboarding people"... reminds me of waterboarding.
I skim the resume, underline anything we use internally and talk to them about experiences.
We've done over 300 interviews in the last expansion year (2017) because we had to build a brand new development office (+50 devs).
After hiring all of these people, we've quantified this as three things: Curiosity, Ability to Learn and Ability to Listen. 2 out of 3 is good, but 3 is best. Almost every person we've hired who has been a success has had some of these, they're willing to be curious about new technologies and how things work, they are capable of learning (desiring isn't the same thing, they are capable of it), and listening is a good trait for enabling communication.
It is still possible that we chose these traits yet rejected other traits which are far more successful, and there is a chance we also rejected good people who would have also succeeded.
I skim the resume, underline anything we use internally and talk to them about experiences.
We've done over 300 interviews in the last expansion year (2017) because we had to build a brand new development office (+50 devs).
After hiring all of these people, we've quantified this as three things: Curiosity, Ability to Learn and Ability to Listen. 2 out of 3 is good, but 3 is best. Almost every person we've hired who has been a success has had some of these, they're willing to be curious about new technologies and how things work, they are capable of learning (desiring isn't the same thing, they are capable of it), and listening is a good trait for enabling communication.
It is still possible that we chose these traits yet rejected other traits which are far more successful, and there is a chance we also rejected good people who would have also succeeded.