What is the #1 answer you get from the interview question, “Why do you want to work here"?

I focus on applicant to job/organizational fit based upon the applicant’s past achievements as well as their ability to learn. Delving into all that takes considerable time if the interview is thorough.

I don’t ask this question during interviews—it’s pointless.

It would waste precious interview time with a question that at best, asks applicants to flatter me/the organization about how wonderful we are. (Seriously. What are they going to say? “This is a second-date organization, and I want to work here because I’ll fit right in.”)

I focus on applicant to job/organizational fit based upon the applicant’s past achievements as well as their ability to learn. Delving into all that takes considerable time if the interview is thorough.

Interviewing is like kissing frogs to find an enchanted prince. I don’t want to prolong the process by making unproductive inquiries.