> Why don't they ask questions relating to the job? When I hear of this sort of behaviour in interviews, I have to assume that the culture of the dept is such

> Why don't they ask questions relating to the job? When I hear of this sort of behaviour in interviews, I have to assume that the culture of the dept is such that x% of your job will entail fielding issues that are things that you consider outside your 'job'. If 20% of the time you'll be talking about stuff that you consider tangential, and you don't react well to that, you may self-select out. ?