65 Job Interview Questions So Bizarre, You Won’t Believe They’re Real
Maybe he was going for mechanically inclined. Like are you naturally intuitive about how mechanical things work.
All that said, not sure why he would ask that of someone with your background in engineering. Seems like maybe he had a list of questions to ask and that one was next… weird
I got asked what my sign was by a CTO one time. Like my astrology sign…..
Not stupid but definitely meant more in a negative manner “how would we measure your commitment to us”.
In 1990, right out of college, interviewing for a computer programming job – “What kind of car do you want to be driving five years from now?”.
After drilling into a bunch of DNS questions, I learned my interviewer did not know that the hosts file skips DNS entirely — no DNS ever happens, it’s just a lookup map handled by the OS. That was… fun.
Best actor portraying Batman.
I answered Keaton because he is the first Batman I watched and liked the Tim Burton version as a kid. Hiring manager was delighted to hear that as she couldn’t stand Bale and how he was always the popular choice. I almost pumped my fist.
I still didn’t get the job.
I applied for an auditor position at a solid waste removal company. They tested me and then had ride on one of the solid waste trucks. I live in South Florida , the trucks and there over 75 of them. Had no a/c , I was dressed in a jacket & tie , I was inside the truck an hour and it literally got to 115 degrees . .. I asked the interviewer, aren’t there trucks with a/c no only the inspector, also they are men and should be able to put with the heat. Are you man enough to put up with the heat ? I said , I would b if I lived in the Middle Ages and there was no a/c. But I’m not Barbaric , thank you have a great day. A day later they called for a second interview😳😳.
OP, that was a poorly worded “tell me about a time when you had to make engineering decisions under extremely tight deadline or on the spot.”
They were looking for “more than book-learning and extensive time to prepare to dazzle” — they wanted “rubber met road and you showed your skill under fire.”
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