Your criticism is great as are your alternate ideas, but I think you might be missing the point of these questions. For "why do you want to work," you can dete

Your criticism is great as are your alternate ideas, but I think you might be missing the point of these questions. For "why do you want to work," you can detect immediately any BS answers. What it really does is show whether the person LOOKED AT YOUR WEBSITE or whether they're spamming their resume. (Although I agree that something more functional WOULD give you more information!) On the second one about failure, of course it's NOT about failure! It's about what you learned, whether you were introspective. And you'd be surprised how many people say they've never failed. Same on the third -- it's about them as a person rather than their technical prowess. In fact, my main argument against your technical questions is that it's hard to know anything about that in writing. You have to ask them questions on the phone where they don't have a chance to research or ask a friend. Finally, you don't get 100 responses as you keep saying. The point is to take the 100 resumes and whittle down to 10, which is about the rate I get. BUT STILL, again I do like your points and perhaps you're right that your questions give you more information than mine. I suppose it depends whether you're trying to ascertain technical aptitude or personal attitude.