[arkadiytehgraet]

Unless this is a some kind of deeply sarcastic/ironic answer, I love it as a prime example of how interviewers do not actually know what they are looking for, and most of their questions are just there to reinforce their initial gut feeling about a candidate.

How can points 2 and 3 even remotely co-exist? They are like completely opposite of each other! You by definition cannot be a self-starter and get work done without oversight, if you require to ask a lot of questions to do anything. Yes, it is always helpful to ask clarifying questions whenever you are not sure about something (and sometimes even when you are sure), but this is like the very opposite of a lack of oversight.

Now you may try to clarify whatever you meant, but, oh no, that would mean that you yourself cannot communicate effectively about what you are actually looking for and what you mean, which makes the first point very vague as well.

[mping]

Of course you can. Someone may not need oversight, but may need guidance. If I hire the best developer on technology X, he will still need guidance navigating my own problems before fixing X's usage.

Also bear in mind that initially you will need some orientation, but the expectation is that you will progress to self starter.

And finally, a good communicator doesn't really need to communicate well all the time.