I have an ice breaker type question which is “what’s something (tool, tech, whatever) you are interested/excited about and wish people knew more about?” Selfishly, interviewing is kind of boring, so I’m always looking to learn something new.

Sadly, out of 100s of people, I’ve probably only gotten an interesting response a handful of times. Mostly people say some well known tech from the job description.

I never held that against anyone, but the people who had an interest in something were more fun to work with.