65 Job Interview Questions So Bizarre, You Won’t Believe They’re Real
1) “So I saw you reading before I went up to you, why are you reading? Don’t normal people your age play on thier phone before an interview?”
2) “it says here you are a psychology major. Are you crazy? I heard only people with problems become psychology majors.” I was tempted to walk out immediately after hearing that, but I needed the job.
“And what church do you attend?”
“Oh, actually I’m not religious.”
“Well I think we’ve got everything we need to know, thanks for coming by.”.
“If you were a tree what kind of tree would you be?”
I was already done with the interview. my answer:
“The one that’s in the part of the park where no dogs are allowed and I can’t get p*ssed on”.
Interviewer: “Explain the internet to me like I am a 5 year old”
Me:”…..okay so like you want me to explain what it is or be technical on how it works”
Interviewer: “Technical on how it works”
Me: “The internet is a very wonderful and dangerous place…think of it like a spider web, but each web point is a connection to a person or place with information….and *Interviewer interrupts me while I am speaking*”
Interviewer: “We were going more for technical like explaining each layer of the protocols and getting into detail on going to external IP, then internal IP, then ports and how each port has different communication, like 80 is http, 443 is https, but thank you for answering.”
Me: “Forsure, I would be able to explain that to a 5 year old and they would comprehend it because my nepehew just learned to write his name”.
Bf just started a new job today. Apparently in the interview yesterday he was asked how many golf balls one could fit into a school bus.
Odd thing was, he tried to laugh it off at first but saw that it was a serious question. So he made a couple estimates for the size of a golf ball and the size of a school bus and started doing the math in his head. The second they saw that he had started trying to work it out, they asked the next question. Didn’t even give him time to answer after giving him the expectant stare for a while.
We never did figure out what the point of that could have been, but he got the job so I guess he reacted correctly.
I was interviewing with Yahoo! as a C Developer. The question was, if Dennis Ritchie(inventor of C) were rated 10/10, how would you rate yourself?
Pretty ridiculous if you ask me. I’d be flattered to find myself one-third as good as Ritchie, so an honest answer would be 3/10. Why should you even interview a guy who rates himself 3/10? Secondly, if I were to rate myself 5/10, would they be willing to pay me half as much as Ritchie? Finally, why would Ritchie go to work for Yahoo!??
For a coffee company: What do you know about our product and why do you want to work for us?
You make instant coffee. I drink coffee. I need money.
“You’re really overqualified … why are you applying here?”
While applying for a warehouse job at a Target Distribution Center. Wound up working there seven years.
For a job at a smoothie place I was asked what i would do if a customer went to leave and it was raining outside.
Did they expect me to walk them to their car with an umbrella? I still don’t know how i was supposed to answer that one…
Had a male CEO ask how I would make sure my voice is heard as a woman in a male dominated field (not verbatim, can’t remember the exact nonsense). MF, what culture do YOU foster where that is the question that is top of mind? This was for an individual contributor tech sales position at a company big enough that the CEO being directly involved in the hiring process was its own red flag.
Eh, I’d take a dumb question over the “do you believe in our company” questions.
“If we couldn’t pay you, would you stay here?”.
“Where do you see yourself in 5 years?”
Well I’ll either be sat where you are (a), or I’ll be elsewhere (b), or just happy keeping a stable wage (c)…..
a) you are after my job. Won’t hire coz you’ll replace me
b) hmmmmm not a good hire they won’t be here to cause change
c) Has no ambition won’t hire.
Why do you want this job?
I know it’s a standard question, but really, I’m sure they just get the same responses over and over again. You and I both know that I applied for over a hundred jobs, I’m here because you guys invited me in for an interview. I want this job because it’s in my field and I need money just like everybody else.
