[throwaway205826]

If there were specific criteria that I could share in an HN comment, they would be used for hiring and immediately collapse under Goodhart’s law. Your question is almost tautologically bad - If I were able to answer it in a brief HN post, my answer would be bullshit.

You can accurately probe competence by asking people questions about their thought process, their current hypotheses, etc. If there are $BIGNUMBER tests for competence, you only need to ask $SMALLNUMBER of them to make an accurate determination as long as the person being asked doesn’t know them ahead of time! This is the same trick many zero-knowledge proof algorithms use.

[nradov]

So you're just dodging the question and don't actually understand the medical profession.

[throwaway205826]

I just pretty clearly explained why I don’t need to understand every detail of the profession to accurately estimate someone’s capability. Which part of that was confusing?

Forgive me if I’m being brusque but you’re doing the same stupid defensive BS that incompetent doctors do when you ask them a question - “oh, and where did you go to medical school?”