THEY SERVE THE IMPORTANT PURPOSE OF MAKING THE INTERVIEWERS FEEL IMPORTANT: Job Interviews Are Useless. “Unstructured interviews have been found to have surprisingly little value in a variety of areas. For medical school interviews, for example, they appear to have no predictive power at all: in terms of academic or clinical performance, those accepted on the basis of interviews do no better than those who are rejected. In law schools, my own experience is that faculties emphasize how aspiring law professors do in one-on-one interviews — which usually provide no information at all about how they will do as teachers or researchers.”