A friend of mine interviewed at Microsoft sometime in the mid-90s. They offered him a job, but he declined it. They interviewed him again a few years later, a

A friend of mine interviewed at Microsoft sometime in the mid-90s. They offered him a job, but he declined it. They interviewed him again a few years later, and one of the questions had come up in his previous interview. He said "in fairness I have to disclose that I was asked this in my last interview -- and they must have liked my answer because they offered me the job." For some reason the interviewer was so flustered that the rest of the questions were all softballs :-) Your mileage may vary.