As an interviewer, any tips on interview questions that will test the interviewees ability to problem solve?

Any advice is welcome, general or as specific

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No brain teasers. Have them role play a realistic scenario they might encounter on the job

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Ask them about a time they solved a complex problem, what they did and the outcome. STAR method is the superior method.

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My favorite interview question I stole from my last boss: "you're planning a revolution - how do you choose a theme song?". You learn a lot about a person along the way.

Omg I love this question!

I ask about past projects and get a feel for their technical expertise. Based off of that, I generally ask them knowing what they know now about X, what different application should this have been applied to? what systemic changes would have had to make it production ruggedized? and what additional modifications could / should be made in future iterations of the MVP? I then have then size the project and diagram the information flow.

Additionally, I have them write a constrained feature, convert to a story and stub the programming. Then I talk to them about writing the feature for a BI reporting, Data Science, and an old school budgeting / econometrics perspective.

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