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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Why do you need an interview?
To ask job-seeking candidates 
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: According to your profile you are CEO
Don't trust profile info. 70% members are CEOs! 
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning
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How do I get to be one, I never progressed beyond programmer?
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Honesty is your weakness!
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning
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Create a shell company that doesn't produce anything.
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Have this upvote just for your profile picture.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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The remaining 30% are working for this 70% CEO community.
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Not sure if this is common where you are from but one question I've had heard a lot is: What's you biggest flaw. Or some variation of it. Generally I think it's to see if you can critically analyze your self.
But there are too many variables to say for certain. Instead of focusing on specific question like you are trying to memorize forgettable knowledge for an exam you should look at it from the interviewers perspective. First of are you by a person with technical expertise that you might work directly under, is it some HR shaman or external recruitment agent?
Also take in consideration what information was posted for the job. Does it seem they want someone long term or you someone that can quickly get to work and do a specific task?
Depending on which they might place different emphasis on your current knowledge and skillset vs personality and potential growth.
Passing interviews, getting interviews is an entire skillset in itself. I for one is very confident in my ability to land a job once I get to the interview stage just because I know my strength and weaknesses and how to present that in the right way related to all these variables. It also helps to seek the right jobs so you can have that confidence.
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Member 11683251 wrote: Not sure if this is common where you are from but one question I've had heard a lot is: What's you biggest flaw.
Which I consider to be one of the most ridiculous questions one could ask in an interview.
For this reason - if I knew what a person's biggest flaw was I would probably not want to work with them.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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It's a stupid question because it only elicits canned responses about being too much of a perfectionist
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There are no comman questions, but only ...
... conman questions 
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For me it's; "Sir, can you please just leave?"
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Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.' 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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 I have a Homer statue that says that on the base
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The most common one I have ever had is
What do you know about us.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Very little because the recruitment agent only told me who you were 20 minutes ago.
I stopped dealing with those recruitment agents - They were always hiding something.
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Facetious:
"Would you like a drink?"
"Did you find us ok?"
Actual:
"Can you give us an example of when you did x" - lots of variations on this
"How did you find x project?" - variants on this to just test out that your CV is actually yours
"Our project hopes to do x. How would you expect it to work?"
Background:
"What's your usual approach to a problem?" - more to get an understanding of how someone processes things.
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Politics Watch wrote: What is the comman question in any interview?
Can I get you some water? Coffee?
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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How do y'do?
Surprise tip: the answer in the UK is not what you'd probably expect.
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Keith Barrow wrote: How do y'do?
Surprise tip: the answer in the UK is not what you'd probably expect.
Mustn't grumble?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Incorrect the correct answer is:
How do y'do?
Welcome to life in the UK, where enquiring about someone's health is seen as intrusive.
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"sugar or creme in your coffee?"
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Why should we hire you? The whole interview is centered around that question.
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The most common one that interviewers never actually ask is ..
Why did you bother coming all the way to this interview when you know that we were always giving the job to someone related to the managing director and just posted the vacancy to meet tiresome regulations?
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