Truthful Answer: What is your Greatest Weakness?
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Joking aside the question is commonly used by interviewers in many disciplines. Being able to critique yourself and your work does show some useful personal skills.
Yeah, but if you honestly share the results of your critique, you won't get hired, because you're compulsively honest in situations where it's inappropriate and you may have other social quirks that make it difficult for you to work with people outside your development group.