If you’re running a team, you owe it to yourself to start looking for these people. Some of the absolute best engineers I’ve ever worked with are of this sort - they get absolutely swamped in group discussions, but when you get them alone and lower the tempo so they can get done processing, they’re often two or three iterations past the group. Don’t let the showy people throw you off - the people who think before talking are worth their weight in gold.

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mixmastamyk a day ago | parent [-]

Paradoxically, these are the ones selected against in "modern" tech interviews.

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		Yeah, I think too many people go into interviews trying to see if the candidate matches their ideal, as opposed to trying to figure out who and what the candidate is. My best hires have all been people with skills and approaches I didn’t know I didn’t have until I got to talk with them.