We allow potential employees to ask questions during interviews. Almost everything is open for ask. I don't understand why anyone would want to work at a company which wasn't like this. Then again, there's lots of people who work at terrible jobs...
-You can't always trust those answers since the person doing the interviewing may be in the happy employee camp and not see as many problems as somebody in a different part of the company.
-You also might be lied to if they desperately need somebody to accept.
-It may undermine you to ask questions like: "What are the actual hours?", "How long is lunch?", "Is being late big deal?", "Is vacation easy to get approved?", etc.
So even though it's probably genuine enthusiasm, it's still engineered.
Exactly. You said "almost". The idea (hopefully) of this platform is to get rid of the word "almost" and just have "Everything is open for ask".
"Is the manager of WebAPP a micromanager?"
"Do you guys have to give daily or weekly status reports?"
"Are there any slackers on the team that probably should have been fired but HR/management hasn't gotten around to it?"
"Do you have a work environment that allows excessive swearing?"
"Do you guys make a lot of inappropriate jokes?"