Monday, 27 January 2014
The 13 Strange Interview Questions You'll Hear in 2014
You stare across the table at the hiring manager. you are poised, confident, prepared for love or money. You nailed the handshaking, you are making nice eye contact, nothing will stop you. you've got attained this job. It's yours.
As ridiculous because it sounds, this situation really happens throughout job interviews across the country. In what should be the results of stir-crazy hour departments, the standard interview question is obtaining weirder — particularly within the school sector.
After collection tens of thousands of interview queries from job candidates throughout the year, Glassdoor has discharged its annual list of the strangest queries from round the hiring world. Below, we have a tendency to've listed the thirteen that we found to be, well, the strangest.
1. “Are you more of a hunter or a gatherer?” - Dell
2. “What is your least favorite thing about humanity?” - ZocDoc
3. “If you could throw a parade of any caliber through the Zappos office, what type of parade would it be?” - Zappos
4. “How many square feet of pizza are eaten in the U.S. each year?” - Goldman Sachs
5. “It’s Thursday; we’re staffing you on a telecommunications project in Calgary, Canada, on Monday. Your flight and hotel are booked; your visa is ready. What are the top five things you do before you leave?” - ThoughtWorks
6. “Have you ever been on a boat?” - Applied Systems
7. “Describe to me the process and benefits of wearing a seatbelt.” - Active Network
8. “How does the Internet work?” - Akamai
9. “If you were a pizza delivery man, how would you benefit from scissors?” - Apple
10. “Why is a tennis ball fuzzy?” - Xerox
11. "Can you instruct someone how to make an origami 'cootie catcher' with just words?” - LivingSocial
12. “How honest are you?” - Allied Telesis
13. “If you were on an island and could only bring three things, what would you bring?” - Yahoo
