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kathir05today at 8:27 AM1 replyview on HN

Low ego, More passion and drive, hustling mindset, Generalists, Good judgement. Simple thing i would do is Ask lot of "Whys"

Why you did this?, why this way? , why you joined this company?

This gives good understanding of both Personality and Hard skills.


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orwintoday at 10:11 AM

Low ego about their ideas and what they build. I.e they can be wrong, thrash their own code without any issues, and work on other people idea.

But if they can't strongly advocate for an idea or against an idea they don't like and just give up, you don't get their full 'utility'. Which, tbh, is not a big issue with juniors with not a lot of experience, but still.

'low ego', but not too low. You want passionate debates.