Are you a team player? Well now, that kinda depends on the team, doesn't it? You can't just slot people in and out like identical Lego blocks. "Ah, yes, I'll ta

Are you a team player? Well now, that kinda depends on the team, doesn't it? You can't just slot people in and out like identical Lego blocks. "Ah, yes, I'll take a bag of 15 size-10 database programmers with 4 years experience please." Charitably, I'd call this a complexity problem - it costs resources to look into individuals, and that's why you have an interview process rather than having the people who do the job talk to the person and see what they think. Uncharitably, I'd say there are people seriously out of touch with their humanity. Who view people as components because they don't care about people. Perhaps because, if you do, it's emotionally draining to get to know so many people and then hurt them by turning them down. Since it's hard to believe this is really an efficient long-term approach to recruitment, I suspect the truth lies somewhere in between.