I think that your reaction to what I wrote is fair, but please allow me to further qualify. My intention for the question is not to judge the answer, or compar

I think that your reaction to what I wrote is fair, but please allow me to further qualify. My intention for the question is not to judge the answer, or compare it to what I like to do; the important issue is that they have an answer! I cannot tell you how many folks I've interviewed (and not hired) who, when asked about their hobbies, immediately start listing programming languages and frameworks. This is not the answer I'm looking for. In fairness to me, there's an almost infinite number of great answers to the question. You can say "music"! I will really respect someone who tells me that they like television. That person is honest. Cooking! Model rockets. Literally just say anything other than a bunch of acronyms. I'm specifically not asking about which church or sex club they go to, and that's made contextually apparent from the conversation leading to that point. I have a strong belief that a well-rounded candidate has interests beyond coding. If they live to code, they probably aren't going to be a good fit, so I save everyone the trouble.