I think the problem with open-ended questions is that it gives the person asked the opportunity to focus exclusively on the positive. With a question like "tell

I think the problem with open-ended questions is that it gives the person asked the opportunity to focus exclusively on the positive. With a question like "tell me about your development process", it's broad enough that it would be easy to miss what they aren't focusing on. I agree a lot of these are extremely specific, but I think there's probably a middle ground where questions can be probing without being extremely specific.