What you're really assessing for

• Can they do the job?
  • Not necessarily right, now but you need to know that they can learn how to do it.
  • Unless you have constraints that they need to be performant straight away.
• Will they get better at doing the job?
  This is especially relevant for juniors

Traits to look for

What not to hire

Note on diversity

You don't want to just hire people like you, which "would I work with this person" can sometimes seem like it's mainly answering.