I'm not sure exactly how I feel about talking about hobbies etc. in interviews, both from an interviewer and interviewee perspective. As an interviewer, you're

I'm not sure exactly how I feel about talking about hobbies etc. in interviews, both from an interviewer and interviewee perspective. As an interviewer, you're potentially going to be spending 40 hours a week with this person. You don't really want to hire a robot. As an interviewee, my private life is none of my employers business. Maybe my hobby is some super kinky shit that I don't really want my employer to know about. There are certainly a lot of things that I do in my own time that I won't talk about at work, some of it because it's not exactly legal and some of it just because I don't really want to deal with my colleagues judging me. It's useless to pretend though that our work life and private life are firewalled from each other. Our work life does leak into our private life, and vice versa.