Skill set, Experience & Reputation
Interviews for reputation based jobs are usually testing experience rather than skill sets. Sometimes they tend to test skills by giving tasks which requires experience to score a problem for 100%.
Reputations is important for companies having reputation as a product.
Levels
They are not absolute. You can have a different level for a different corporation, as the requirements are not the same.
How can you calibrate your expectations from candidate based on level that they are holding?
Ask: What have you were accountable for in your current position? How did you manage that?
Specialist vs Generalist
Generalists have lower risk of finding a good job.
Specialists have better reward-to-effort ratio.
Recruitment stage: recruiter intro
make sure if the position has approved budget or company just want to hire good people: budget is good to know when it comes to negotiations, also if they plan for the positions then it is less likely that they hire only to collect ideas from the market
Knowledge and Con
Confidence is very important thing at work . It presents a wining attitude and makes people successful. Though, it might lead to distortion of reality which can devastate quality of a product.
It might be difficult to spot a con during an interview. You can spot it sometimes when you are checking specific knowledge. If someone is wrong by claiming opposite with high confidence then you have a red flag. It might be a fluke, as each of us is sometimes genuinely wrong. Therefore, you search then for a repeating pattern of this behaviour.