The Guerrilla Guide To Interviewing (Version 3.0)

Everybody gives lip service to the idea that people are the most important part of a software project, but nobody is quite sure what you can do about it. The very first thing you have to do right if you want to have good programmers is to hire the right programmers, and that means you have to be able to figure out who the right programmers are, and this is usually done in the interview process.

by Joel Spolsky, Joel On Software (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/GuerrillaInterviewing3.html)