What interview question has given you trouble in the past?

Tell me about yourself! Not because I don’t know myself but because as a Marine Officer the last skill I had was to speak about myself and my accomplishments. It was always about my team.

"Where do you see yourself in ten years"?
Apparently the right answer isn't on a beach in Belize collecting workman's comp.

I have been on both sides of the interview process. I planned for my separation from service and started interviewing two years in advance of my intended separation. I knew I could jump if the right offer came along. Out of 23 interviews I was extended an offer in 21 cases. I think the interview process told me more about the potential employers than they learned about me. For the most part the interviewers were in my opinion unartful and their questions were contrived.

Two companies impressed me. They did not conduct normal interviews. From resume's, they narrowed the field to half a dozen or so candidates. Then the candidates spent a day individually job shadowing people that held the position they were trying to fill. That narrowed the field to 2 or 3 candidates, who then spent the day job shadowing the person who would be their supervisor.

For me the process was so distasteful that I decided to go into business rather than become an employee.

As a potential employer, the interview consisted of such highly contrived and rehearsed answers that it only served to annoy me and waste my time. For Blue Collar placements I went strictly to skills testing, done by my staff. For White Collar placements (my market was around the $100,000 dollar mark in service industries in the mid nineties) I had a hard sell. I spent a great deal of time getting to know HR professionals well enough that I was allowed to job shadow for the position, and with the potential supervisor. I then conducted a resume screening and picked the three candidates that were the best match. Then they went through the job shadow instead of interviews. I didn't waste my time on employer's that conducted conventional interviews, because one bad interview could severely damage my reputation.