Then take off from there and go deeper. People expect me to ask about their training, how things were in their last job, and so forth. Now, that is a stereotypical question. A stereotypical answer. This forces them out of the stereotype.
Many mediocre interviewers keep the conversation at the level of sterotypes.
If you do that, you're not getting a reading on the real person. Doing a whole interview in stereotypes gets you nowhere. It's all just shallow data. Your objective is to get the subject talking, in as much of a discursive, narrative fashion as possible. This is when people are most themselves, and when they are least able to rattle off their prepared answers and shield themselves from your attempt to probe their weak spots.