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The best questions to ask are the ones that pertain to actual work.

Think of a problem you had before and solved or are attempting to solve. Ask the person being interviewed how they'd handle the problem. Do they have good process, intuition, and problem solving skills? Are they clear about communicating their intentions and explaining their decisions?

This isn't a trick - it's what the person is going to be doing there, in and out, every day.

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Completely agree. I recently had an interview where I was asked to solve a job scheduling type problem. So I see the potential graph, remember topological sort and bingo!

Right after that the interviewer told me they have a lot of code that manages assets that have priorities between each other and that this is the kind of problem they solve regularly.

It was a good question: it wasn't too hard as to take hours to solve, it was a decent test of how I was able to choose an appropriate representation for the data and it applied to a real world problem they solve.

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