[gerdesj]

You appear to do recruitment differently to me based on your response to the question that I would never bother to ask.

That sort of adversarial bollocks is a bit shallow and something I would never bother with.

I have two employees that came back after leaving - you?

[paulgrimes1]

It was a take on mutual respect really, the question itself irks me, and I’d never level it to a prospective employee.

I would, however, try to obtain the same info using less jarring questions; possibly asking why the employee chose _us_ to decide to make their next career step, what inspires them to do this work, things like that.

[FLUX-YOU]

The technical tests being given to people with experience was long ago the initial shot in adversarial hiring. Tech hiring gets adversarial but it may be difficult to know before you take an interview with someone.

The original question is already a red flag. Now we're just taking jabs at each other. Especially if this is an interview after I've given you a technical test which probably represents the work better than any answer I could give to the question.