65 Job Interview Questions So Bizarre, You Won’t Believe They’re Real
Typical engineering type question.
“You have a perfect sphere the size of the earth. You wrap a string snugly around the equator. It is a magic string with no stretch. Now you add 6 inches to the string. Would you be able to fit your hand under the gap created?”
You give your answer and then are asked to prove it mathematically.
One of my friend used ot work in finance and was applying for a job in the video game industry.
Interviewer: “so you were working in finance???”
friend: “yes. I know it’s a 180° turn but…”
I:”Well I’d even say 360°!”
f: “Well no, 360° I’d be back where I was”.
“How do you think out of the box?” I was really young and came from a non-American family so I had never heard of that quote before. I asked the interviewer who was an HR manager to explain what it meant. And he just repeated the question. I said to him I don’t know this term, “Out of the box.” Then he looked upset at me. Thinking back 20 years later, he should have said it means how do you think up new ways to tackle problems. Terrible interviewer and terrible Hr manager.
What’s your favorite Pokémon?
For an accounting position, at cabinet company, with no known Pokémon association.
When I interview candidates, I barely ever ask technical questions, and if I do, I intentionally make them as vague as possible, because I want to see how people find information, not how much they know already. I tend to pull from scenarios I regularly get from non-technical people. (In my company, it’s not unusual for things to get escalated to engineers quickly). So my goal is to see how quickly they can tease out a problem based on very limited information.
I usually start with “a user claims that the internet isn’t working. What do you do?”
One candidate went with:
“I’ll restart the internet router”
“For the whole company?”
“Yes.”
“Ok. You restart the internet router and now other people are reporting that the internet is out and the user who reported it still says the internet is out.”
“Well, that always works.”
“It’s not working tho. What are you going to do now?”
“But restarting the router *always* works”
“Let’s move on to the next question…”.
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