Sometimes I get the feeling that the interview questions are (consciously or unconsciously) optimized to find people who know when to lie (and lie convincingly)

Sometimes I get the feeling that the interview questions are (consciously or unconsciously) optimized to find people who know when to lie (and lie convincingly) to inquisitor types. Surprise, your boss' boss just decided to drop in and is asking your new guy some pointed questions about the deadline. ~Tada~, the IRS is sending someone over who wants to interview a few people. Oops, that lawyer that your clients hired are going around and subpoenaing previous employees. "So, uh, we need you to tell us your biggest weakness. And bonus points if by the end of your story the entire interview team is crying from laughing so hard." So ideally, the most interesting bug story response would be a story about how awesome you are at finding bugs that are introduced by other organizations than the one you were working in AND make the listener like you. * Look this candidate can fix bugs. * Look this candidate knows not to talk about the dirty secrets of the org they are (were) a part of. And is able to defect blame to another entity. * Look this candidate makes questioners like them which will hopefully keep too much scrutiny from being applied to them.