They can all be horrible and a nightmare or help you achieve your overall objectives.

@Yonah Weiss I always appreciate your comprehensive and objective responses!

Important to challenge my own assumptions and look objectively at performance.

Those can be mutually exclusive in some markets, so you need to define your primary objective.

This model (every applicant gets the same questions in our interview, and we score them objectively based on their responses) is often used for job interviews, and may help to mitigate the risk of Fair Housing claims. 

Translation--I was a trainer that utilized the Instructional System Design and Development process to build and refine courseware in support of a learning objective.  

Maybe I'm way off​ base, but you sound exactly like a guy I know that is perpetually friendzoned by women even though he has a great career and by all objective marks should be great boyfriend material.

What's your objection to the boyfriend's visits?

The PMD supervisors testimony was all hearsay, which we objected to, but Judge xxxx, in error, failed to sustain.

Again, it's determined by each person's goals, objectives, personal risk tolerance, etc.