The interview process just seems to be getting crazier and crazier, doesn't it? It's either 12 people interviewing you at once or three hours sitting in a chair, talking to one person after another, starting to get the feeling you'd rather work somewhere else.

I usually ask personal questions --- like "What has been your most surprising challenge working here?" or "If you could change anything about your job, what would you change?" It's the sort of thing you can ask each person once.

The answers can actually be VERY interesting. There's always one person in the group that has some really lengthy explanation of everything that's wrong with the place. I used to wonder what happened to those people afterwards until a coworker pulled the same trick when we were interviewing the person who later became her boss. It wasn't pretty!