As others pointed out, you're likely not to get a honest answer and you'll probably won't know it. The HR people are likely trained in the art of fake smiles. H

As others pointed out, you're likely not to get a honest answer and you'll probably won't know it. The HR people are likely trained in the art of fake smiles. How about this question instead: "What would you like to change for better in your company ?" Followed by "Do you have any ideas how to achieve that ?" This shouldn't sound scary as max(sorted(issues, key=severity)). It allows the interviewer to be honest and mention the worst thing. Be suspicious if they say "I wish we had a nice mountain view." ;-). And nothing like "I would like to earn 10x more", that's essentially a "three wishes" kind of response, too easy.