[hackinthebochs]

>Get a feel for their personality, the things that motivate them, the things that annoy them, the things that inspire them, etc.

What exactly are you trying to determine from this? The problem with such open-ended types of questions is that all objectivity is lost. You end up picking people who mirror your own motivations, annoyances, etc. Unless you are sure your question will produce actual signal in an objective manner, you shouldn't ask it. You are just biasing the process in favor of people that will flatter your own ego.

[cpprototypes]

If technical competency has already been established, then there should be no problem with asking these kinds of subjective questions since it's meant to screen for a subjective area (team/culture fit).

[hackinthebochs]

It's not obvious that the examples given do that (besides whether you'd want to have a beer with them). If there is a specific set of behaviors that you believe will better gel with the team, then ask questions that are signals for those specific behaviors. Or, perhaps you should simply set up processes that enforce those behaviors.

[derefr]

I do believe what is being suggested is that people only hire people they want to have beers with.

[HelloMcFly]

One could argue that while you're overtly trying to screen for cultural fit, what you're actually screening for is self-monitoring, presentation skills, etc. But that's a "problem" with all interviews, structured or no, and typically those attributes are functional anyway.