Seriously? I can assure you with 100% certainty that the most important point - "teach me something" - was entirely my own innovation.

I am tempted to take some offense at your comment. But I have to assume that you mean well.

You are correct that I don't work for IBM any more. What does that have to do with anything?

I'm surprised at the negativity your approach seems to have sparked in a few, but I found it really great, probably very effective as well and will probably start to use it at some point.

Thanks for sharing.

Thank you! And please do feel free to use the idea, or change it and make it your own. The great thing is that it starts the interview with the candidate being the expert at something, and I am their student.

So was I! Frankly, having done similar things, I found their comment here lucid, well thought out and valuable enough to write some things in resonance.

My take is the negatives may just be people leaning hard on, "if it seems too good to be true...