Yeah, "no right answer" questions open up the opportunity to work together in a dialog, which simulates real work better than "test style" questions. I also ha

Yeah, "no right answer" questions open up the opportunity to work together in a dialog, which simulates real work better than "test style" questions. I also had great success hiring for IT ops by telling the person, "we use some systems you are not familiar with here, so I'm going to spend the next 10 minutes teaching you the system, and then we'll discuss how you'd diagnose it when you get your first page about it". This tests their ability to learn something new, to engage with an unfamiliar situation, but in the context of mentorship. The only problem with such an intimate technique is that when someone bombs it, they really really bomb it: There's just no hiding what's happening, as it's happening.