Bingo!
I conduct 3-7 interviews a week.
Standard icebreaker questions include:
What do you want to do? (Its amazing how many people have a resume loaded with one thing but want to do something else - occasionally, this is the end of the line as expectations/desire don't match my open position).
Why are you leaving your current position?
Why do you want to work here?
What will you bring to the company?
Good reasons to leave include seeking new challenges, exciting startup phase is over, family reasons (want different commute), etc.
Bad ones are my boss is a jerk, my coworkers hate me, I can't figure out their stupid problems, I want more money than they will pay for my paltry skill set, etc.
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
