[boojums]

>reasonable baseline

>significantly above average

I don't mean this in a confrontational way, but I am curious how you establish what a reasonable baseline is.

[shalmanese]

You have enough of these interviews with people across a range of experience levels and you kind of get calibrated to what to expect at however many years into a career. Usually you get a small group of people who are operating far and above the level of their peers and it's pretty obvious.