Don't ask questions that you know you'll get standard and superficial answers for. "Can you work under stress?" "Are you a fast learner?" What do you expect the candidate to say? They'll just say yes.
When crafting questions to ask interview candidates, you must think ahead how they will answer, so that you'll get useful information. "Tell me about your most stressful project at your current job." "What was the most challenging new skill you had to learn on the job?" Job interviews are too short for you to know a person well. Both you and the candidate are trying to present your best selves, inadvertently withholding some information and exaggerating others.
Craft your questions well. Ask deep questions that allow you to understand the candidate better.
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