Bingo. The reality is many people have no idea how to interview, so they fall back on the only thing they know: test taking in school, and studying for the test.
You don't want to just ask them to tick boxes, because first off some'll lie to you, and second, the dunning-kruger cases will lie to themselves. Can they communicate? Can they solve unseen problems? Can they do so comprehensively and rigorously? Do they know how to maintain a project for many years?
An interview method that can't tell the passionate hackers from the posers and pencil pushers is worthless.
You don't want to just ask them to tick boxes, because first off some'll lie to you, and second, the dunning-kruger cases will lie to themselves. Can they communicate? Can they solve unseen problems? Can they do so comprehensively and rigorously? Do they know how to maintain a project for many years?
An interview method that can't tell the passionate hackers from the posers and pencil pushers is worthless.