I mean, if a hiring manager thought about asking those questions, I, as a jobseeker, would want to be asked them. Only so I could know that that boss is going to be a giant pain of boundary stomping nonsense and avoid them if I can. But I don’t think that was the actual goal of the exercise.

I really don’t need a prospective employer to make me reflect on who my friends in my last job were. And the question “Who would you have saved first if your last company premises caught a fire?” makes it sound like instead of doing something decent like pulling the fire alarm/calling the fire department, they’re expecting that I’d just peace out of work with someone because I like them and then just leave everyone else to the fire. And who wants to work for an employer who thinks you’d just abandon people to a fire because you aren’t personally friends with them, and how does that have anything to do with work? (Also, I’m disabled and would be the person in need of help during an evacuation, would I be marked as a bad coworker by that interviewer because I recognise that I would need help and not be able to help others? Not a good sign in an interview question!)

It all just sounds like the sort of 4D-chess logic that is behind all of those “Why is a manhole cover round?” type questions people get from online lists because they have no idea what they are doing.

You put it much better than I could have. I agree with you 100%. I also found these questions to be ridiculous. If I were asked these questions in an interview, I would consider them to be at least yellow if not red flags and would seriously consider not taking the job if offered!

“What makes you angry?”

“Have you remained close with any former colleagues from past jobs?”

“Who would you have saved first if your last company premises caught a fire?”

These questions seem to me to be personally intrusive, a sure way to introduce bias (or discrimination) into a hiring interview, totally unrelated to a job or the work to be performed, and, even though I also don’t practice law, a wonderful way to get a labor attorney daydreaming of that new Mercedes they’ve always wanted after they win the lawsuit.

I presume that most writers don’t write their own headlines, so I’ll give you “a pass” on this headline: “Interview Questions Candidates Want You to Ask.”

But the “we” in your lead-in tells me you wrote this: “We talk a lot about questions hiring managers and recruiters should ask, but we never talk about the questions that the job candidates actually want to be asked. If you want to find the best people for your open positions, try some of these questions….”

And frankly, I can’t think of anyone seeking employment who would want an employer asking these 3 questions or anything like them … especially anyone who has been following the Evil HR Lady for any length of time.

Also, the last sentence in the article isn’t finished.

“What makes you angry?” – Stupid questions like this one.

AMEN!!!