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Since you will never have any way to seriously lern if that question works you can just as well ask in an interview if the candidate ever wanted to be a panda. I think people who wanted to be pandas are lazy and shouldn‘t be trusted.

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I'd never actively considered whether or not I wanted to be a panda before reading this, but my initial reaction was "of course, who wouldn't?" and I thought you were going to express a distrust of anyone without that reaction. Obviously, that's not the case, and I'm a little shocked.

Just a clear case of different approachs, but I'm guess I'm glad nobody's asked me this in an interview yet.

I would certainly employ somebody who could answer "have you ever wanted to be a panda" cogently. A single word answer invites questions. This is not the same question as "what is your spirit animal" which may be a reason to terminate the interview as a candidate.

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