its proven that these interviewers are untrained HR people
asking generalist questions. there are techniques and set of
questions asked to solicit genuine reply.
is this question is not meant to humiliate you, I dunno what
is.
I saw that you have been working for many years and you are
still an executive.
Questions of these nature are design to see how you would handle
pressure. Assuming you lost ur cool, and walk out, this would
reflect to the interviewer u cannot control yourself. They'll never
hire u for jobs like customer assurance, corporate communications,
public relations especially. In fact, this kind of "pressure"
interview-styles are used in relatively higher responsibility jobs
in my company.
What happens if a customer complain to you that your
organisation is stupid, or gives degrading comments about you? Or a
reporter probing u about a controvestial decision made by your
company? You stand up and walk away?
Go think about it. While I agree there are silly interviewers,
most of the time, the fool is the interviewee.