[Gnolfo]

If they ask for your input and then move on to the next question, absolutely. But at that point you're blaming the tool and not the user. The conclusion to draw is the interviewer is lazy / doesn't know what they're doing if they ask a question like that and move right on without inviting 2-way discussion over it.

The article clearly intends this to be a jumping off point to talk about what you're looking for in an employer and work environment in more detail. And it gets the ball rolling a little faster rather than just saying, "talk about what you're looking for in an employer and work environment in more detail".

[pygorex]

I can see the value as an icebreaker - and to potentially knock an interviewee out of the sycophant zone and into a more candid state of mind.

Context is everything. Re-reading the article I think I may have been hyper-parsing the question....