Rands: "And if you don't have a list of questions lined up for me, all I hear is: YOU DON'T WANT THIS JOB."

That may be what you hear, but just because you're hearing it doesn't mean it bears any resemblance to reality. :)

I often find interviewers passing around pearls of candidate-evaluation "wisdom" like this... usually with nothing other than their gut feeling to back it up. It may be worth asking yourself how you'd even know if you were wrong?

To be fair, you may not care if you're wrong occasionally - hence things like the Joel Spolsky style of "any doubt at all => no hire."

But again, worth considering - how would you *know* if you're only wrong occasionally? :-)