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The interview feels easy. The candidate tells stories like yours, recognises the same references, and approaches problems in a way you immediately understand. Another candidate makes you work harder to follow their thinking. It is tempting to call the first conversation evidence of a better fit. Ease is information, but it is not the whole assessment. A team can need skills, experience, and perspectives that do not arrive in familiar packaging. Return to the actual work. Which person has shown the ability it requires? What would you learn from the approach you did not recognise at first? Keep the standard consistent without making resemblance part of the standard. You do not have to dismiss rapport to notice its influence. Good leadership includes being curious about the person who would make the team less like you and more capable together. Sometimes the strongest addition is someone whose judgment you will learn to appreciate, rather than someone whose answers already sound like your own.
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