[bhuga]

I've given hundreds of interviews, and here's some that have gotten real-talk answers out of me (both good and bad):

* What's one thing you'd change about <company X>?

* Tell me about the last time you worked past 7pm.

* How surprised were you by your last performance review?

* When's the last time you referred a friend to <company X>?

* Tell me how the last incident you responded to went.

* Tell me about a time you were able to work on something you identified and selected.

* What question is always tough to answer as an interviewer at <company X>?

The one I liked asking as a candidate was: It's 2 years from now, and <company X> has failed. What happened?

I got some good real talk about that one, and some smoke and mirrors. It was a good baloney extractor.

I think an important thing is to ask interviewers to pick a concrete instance of a thing you're interested in, such as poor work/life balance, and talk about the most recent one. It's easy to say "oh, we have great work life balance," but that's different for everyone, and frankly it's just too easy to gloss over. Ask them why they worked late the last time they worked late.

For example, with your question:

When interviewing perspective employees, does the entire team participate in the interview process and make a hire / no hire decision as a team?

I'd instead ask:

Had you talked with the most recent person who joined your team before they were hired?

[JoshuaRowe]

This is a great take and a good set of questions. I totally agree on being more concrete and specific to get, at least, closer to the responses you are looking for. I feel like I have asked some more open ended questions, which can be good, but for finding specific info quickly (as time is limited in interviews), putting a sort of spin on those questions makes sense.

[hbogert]

hehe these are quite good; some of them are the type of questions that if the answerer takes too long to come up with an answer, you know it's complete bullocks.

[imhoguy]

or just looses eye contact for a few seconds. Body language interview is the thing.