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So why isn't the question phrased "What are your expectations of how we work here?" or something along those lines? If the goal of the question is to address th

So why isn't the question phrased "What are your expectations of how we work here?" or something along those lines? If the goal of the question is to address the motivations of the person applying for the job to determine if there's any mismatch with the companies mission than "why do you want to work here" is absolutely the wrong test.

dozzie 9y ago
>> "why are you looking to leave your current job and why does this one interest you" > So why isn't the question phrased "What are your expectations of how we work here?" Because it's not the same question at all. I don't know what to expect from your work practices yet, but (a) you work at a big scale and I'm interested in that, or (b) you use Erlang/Ada and I'd like to use that professionally, or (c) you make CNC machines and I'd like to move to writing industrial hard-realtime code, or a number of similar reasons before you even know what the company looks like from the inside.