Seven tips for evaluating soft skills in interviews

When interviewing engineers, we often focus too much on hard technical skills and neglect the soft interpersonal skills.

Soft skills like communication and the ability to work as a team are essential to engineering success. And while technical skills gaps are easily filled on the job, it’s a lot more difficult (or impossible) to change challenging personalities.

The behavioral part of the interview is about more than weeding out toxic candidates. It’s an opportunity to learn about how somebody communicates, interacts, and relates to others, and whether they would be a good fit for your team.

But identifying and evaluating soft skills can be difficult, as they’re less tangible and measurable than technical skills.

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