There is an enormous amount of consideration and nuance being projected by this article onto these questions and the context they're often asked in. I've been

There is an enormous amount of consideration and nuance being projected by this article onto these questions and the context they're often asked in. I've been in this industry a long time, I've been in startups and in big enterprises, and I've been a hiring manager in both cases and an executive in the former. Very, very rarely would I say that my hiring manager or executive peers (especially of the typically inexperienced startup variety) would be asking questions like these with the awareness of intent and interpretation being claimed here. Mostly these questions are being asked because, just like the fairly pointless "whiteboarding" questions, they're just the questions everybody thinks they're supposed to ask. That is of course until an alternative model is presented and nurtured. If you find a great hiring manager who is actually putting in a lot of forethought, intent, and consideration into their hiring and interviewing process, then do whatever you can to work with them. But, one of the ways you'll be able to detect such a person is they won't likely be asking cookie-cutter questions or giving you cookie-cutter quizes.