I still believe this is a very interesting topic. There are still some nice interviews coming up.
I was interviewed and I enjoyed it. I even made a
local versionof it. One veteran user even woke up after a long time to answer the interview. That was pretty cool.
I think zasad@ wanted to be more inclusive, inviting as many people as possible. Not what everyone was expecting. The questions of the interview are not as customized as they were in the beginning. But the idea of those interviews is very interesting and there are high quality interviews here.
It's possible to fix those issues as well.
I agree. I think he made mistake by mentioning merit in PM's that he sent to users. In such way he attracted some spammers and abusers who wanted easy merit.
Personally, I would have responded without merit thing because this topic is interesting for me. Probably I spent more than hour to answer all questions.
I read many interviews here with big interest, especially these which are made by forum veterans, like @qwk