If that were a problem, they'd be unlikely to have interesting projects on their resume or would have failed the "talk about your interesting projects" phase. In other words: it wouldn't matter if they were easy to work with in that case because they wouldn't be considered a good candidate for the job.
Every single time I read these recruitment threads on HN or anywhere else it always comes back to "who can bullshit the most" and "can you solve this ridiculous problem you will never encounter while employed here".
Glad to see an article about trying something different in recruitment, it is a BS industry, partly because it is so difficult to measure "success" and follow up the process with meaningful data.
