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This is a question for skilled workers with multiple offers when there are more candidates than positions, so it's pretty stupid when managers at McDonald's ask it during an interview. I suppose they can use the given answers to determine if someone is assigned to the cash register or the frier. Even McDonald's requires a certain level of bullshit tolerance and people skills at the front of the house.
For low level jobs, I see the interview as more of a test of "can this candidate handle basic communication, avoid acting in a way that will alarm others, handle a bit of pressure, and generally behave in a way that I don't see us regretting hiring this person for at least as long as it takes to have an interview?"
For those interviews, there aren't so much right answers as there are wrong answers.
Going in to interviews with the subtle art of not giving a fuck mindset transforms their nature entirely. While I don't enjoy being in a position where I need to go do interviews, the interviews themselves aren't that bad, they can even be enjoyable if you tune your dgaf properly.
Though it's important to understand that the not giving a fuck mindset isn't a "I don't care what you think" kind of energy, it's "whatever happens here, I'll be fine". Reach for what you want and give it your honest best shot, but leave any desperation at home. Even if you might not be fine, cross that bridge later.
I have been asked this question at ever skill level of job I have applied for, since high school.
It's interesting that when I finally made it to the level where that kind of question is appropriate, they stopped asking. They know why you want to work at a company with an amazing reputation for taking care of employees, and use their time to ask more important questions. I've asked it only twice now that I interview people, and it was when the candidate pool was narrowed down to two amazingly qualified and intelligent people, and I needed some sort of tie breaker. It's not a great tie breaker, but I was out of ideas. That's more of a deficiency with my interview prep than a reflection of the company though.