How to Interview a Software Developer

Mentors often fall into a trap where they become obsessed with specific languages or technologies and programming methodologies. When mentoring more junior engineers I have found to be a very big trap a very easy thing for inexperienced developers to fall into. They will just keep trying to solve it with whatever approach that decided is the right approach. And in my experience this is extremely valuable in something that more experienced software developers often have learned but less experienced ones don't really realize yet.