This is an interesting thought experiment, but my problem is that it's considered a bad thing if the candidate's ideal job is substantially different from the o

This is an interesting thought experiment, but my problem is that it's considered a bad thing if the candidate's ideal job is substantially different from the one they're interviewing for. Why should an actual job line up with an ideal at all? Shouldn't we just evaluate the candidate for how well they would perform at the actual job in question, instead of worrying about how it lines up with some scenario they've been asked to conjure up? This strikes me as a backdoor to the old "passion" canard.