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Dave

Honestly, most of these are simply badly worded questions from the interviewer perspective.

Example: "What makes you feel you can do this job?" - if, as an interviewer, I didn't already know the answer to that, you wouldn't be sitting in an interview. That's a bad interviewer wasting the candidates time, instead of reading the resume etc.

On a similar vein: "Are you punctual?" - in an interview setting, I don't care, and have hired people that were 45mins late to the interview. Life happens. If you regularly rock up late however, good luck surviving the probationary period.

Even the "tell me about your weaknesses" - is similar to a question that I ask, but it's followed up with the more important things. My version is "tell me a few things from your past work life, that you struggled with - or outright failed at, and what lessons they taught you."