I'm replying to my own comment here just because it's a different point.
I posit, interviews are unlikely candidates to truly separate the wheat from the chaff in these 2 distinct but probably not uncommon scenarios.
1) ambitious person with limited skills
2) highly skilled person with limited ambition
With the first you wonder if their ambition will be enough to get them over many technical hurdles in the course of the job. When bringing someone like this onto your team you almost need to take personal stake in their success for fear that by hiring them you're potentially taking them away from another opportunity where their immediate qualifications may be a better fit.
With the second person I imagine it's a different kind of challenge to try to uncover this kind of personality trait during an interview process.
I posit, interviews are unlikely candidates to truly separate the wheat from the chaff in these 2 distinct but probably not uncommon scenarios.
With the first you wonder if their ambition will be enough to get them over many technical hurdles in the course of the job. When bringing someone like this onto your team you almost need to take personal stake in their success for fear that by hiring them you're potentially taking them away from another opportunity where their immediate qualifications may be a better fit.With the second person I imagine it's a different kind of challenge to try to uncover this kind of personality trait during an interview process.