21 Most Bizarre Interview Questions
We are getting to the point where the usual “What are your strengths & weaknesses?”, “Where do you want to be in 5 years”, and “What is your greatest achievement” questions just don’t give interviewees a challenge, and won’t provide the interviewer with a thorough understanding of a candidate’s suitability for a role. Common interview questions like these are easily Googled and can simply be rehearsed, so how can you pose a question that will really get the interviewee to think? For this, many employers have turned to bizarre interview questions.
Here are some interesting questions famously asked by large businesses, some of which you might want to keep in your back pocket for your next interview:
1) “If you were to win £1m, what would you do with the money?” – Asked at PwC
2) “How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?” – Asked at Google
3) “What makes you happy about work on a Friday evening?” – Asked at Tesco
4) “How do you fit a giraffe in a fridge?” – Asked at UBS
5) “If Germans were the tallest people in the world, how would you prove it?” – Asked at Hewlett-Packard
6) “If you were the Head of Barclays Corporate, what would your strategy be with the recent European Crisis?” – Asked at Barclays
7) “How much does a 747 weigh?” – Asked at Microsoft
8) “Would Mahatma Gandhi have made a good software engineer?” – Asked at Deloitte
9) “If your friend was seriously injured and you had to get him to a hospital, would you speed and go through a red light?” – Asked at Barlow, Lyde & Gilbert (Law firm)
10) “Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses?” – Asked at BHP Billiton
11) “How would you cure world hunger?” – Asked at Amazon.com
12) “What are the three words that your parents would describe you with?” – Asked at YO! Sushi
13) “Just entertain me for five minutes; I’m not going to talk” – Asked at Acosta
14) “Why is 99% not good enough?” – Asked at Parcelforce Worldwide
15) “Pepsi or Coke? And why?” – Asked at United Health Group
16) “How many ways can you get a needle out of a haystack?” – Asked at Macquarie Bank
17) “Does life fascinate you?” – Asked at Ernst & Young
18) “How would you explain Facebook to your Grandma?” – Asked at Huddle
19) “Can you spell ‘diverticulitis’?“ – Asked at Morgan Stanley (the candidate answered “No” and passed)
20) “In a fight between a lion and a tiger, who would win & why?” – Asked at Capco
22) “Rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 10 on how weird you are.” – Asked at Capital One
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