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People also ask "what is your greatest weakness?" - good luck to anyone thoughtful enough to know a real answer and thoughtless enough to tell it honestly. That interview question is fair but there is a decent chance here that it selects for people who are good at answering hard-to-answer questions more than anything else. It pushes for someone who can fabricate inoffensive but plausible answers.

Selecting people with high verbal and social intelligence isn't a bad interview strategy though.