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by recursivecaveat 18 days ago
Many times I have seen people's answers to this question be a factor in which projects they are targeted for by the way. Not every question is necessarily a 'filter' per se. That said I think in truth a lot of this genre of questions fulfill a similar kind of purpose to the 'waiter rule' of dating. Anybody who can't spin together 30s of polite smalltalk about how they're interested in the role to get a job may be very difficult to work with.