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I don't think hiring is "broken." I think that it's a hard problem where you would require unlimited resources and time to achieve perfection.

A short onsite interview where we discuss my previous work experience and your current needs is the best way. Programming skill should have already been proven beforehand, but FizzBuzz never hurts. It should be no more than an hour long.

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Let's say you are interviewing for a managerial position, how would you like to be interviewed in a way that shows you can lead people?

My resume will already have the relevant experience listed on it. The purpose of the interview is not really to gain new information about me, but to verify the experience I claim to have. It is very difficult to tell if someone is being dishonest or even just exaggerating their experience just from looking at their resume, but easy in an interview. I expect they would just ask me questions that no one would know except someone who actually did what I claimed to do, until they are satisfied.

Aha, that's if you assume that you're applying for a position that you worked in before, but say you applied for a entry engineering management position and all you did before was develop software without leading anyone else. How should the interview go about from your perspective?

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