I actually got asked this once, right out of college, by a consulting-focused subsidiary of a certain publicly traded company that dealt with open source operat

I actually got asked this once, right out of college, by a consulting-focused subsidiary of a certain publicly traded company that dealt with open source operating systems that shall go unnamed. IIRC I said something about being smart and well motivated, and being excited about the projects they were talking about... I didn't get an offer. Ultimately this is a "Rorschach test" question. Because it's completely and entirely open ended, it isn't measuring anything other than the interviewee's ability to say what the interviewer wants to hear. An interviewer that asks this question is probably not that good of an interviewer, because, with very few exceptions, being very good at fast talking isn't a skill needed to do the job. If you're asked this and willing to forgive the company for giving you an interviewer that would ask this, the other answers have good suggestions.