I like Mark Murphy’s material a lot (https://www.leadershipiq.com/). He gives a lot of credible and fundamental counsel. One of my favorites relates to interviewing questions. Read the excerpt below:

“I want to address the questions that interviewers ask that are useless to their hiring process. Here are some of the biggies:

Tell me about yourself.

What are your strengths?

What are your weaknesses? Etc.

These are not necessarily inherently bad questions, but they are cliché, wherein lies their flaw. When you ask questions candidates are expecting, you’re guaranteed to get canned, rehearsed answers that waste everyone’s time. There is a book called “101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions.” Every hiring manager should have a book like this on hand.

If you find yourself asking questions that appear in this book, you probably want to rethink them, because you can bet your candidates have read the book, too.

Another bad question is the hypothetical question. (e.g. If you were an animal, what kind of animal would you be?) Now, if you knew, for example, that every high performer in your organization said cheetah and every low performer said elephant this might be a valid question. But until you know that, these are just quirky, nonsensical questions that are useless to your hiring process.”

See the following for the full article –

http://www.leadershipiq.com/materials/Hiring_For_Attitude_1.pdf

What questions do YOU ask in interviews?

Are they valid predictors of future success?