Oddest interview questions of 2010.

[napi21]

There are 25 questions listed, aand for sure some of them sure are odd!

http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2011/01/05/top-25-oddball-job-interview-questions.html?ed=2011-01-05&s=article_du&ana=e_du_pap

Here are 5 of them:

1) "If you were shrunk to the size of a pencil and put in a blender, how would you get out?" — Asked for an analyst position at Goldman Sachs.

2) "How many ridges around a quarter?" — Asked for a project analyst position at Deloitte.

3) "What is the philosophy of martial arts?" — Asked for a sales associate position at Aflac.

4) "Explain me what has happened in this country during the last 10 years." — Asked for a consultant position at Boston Consulting.

5) "Rate on a scale of 1 to 10 how weird you are." — Asked for an operations analyst position at Capital One.



Read more: Top 25 oddball job interview questions of 2010 | Atlanta Business Chronicle

You can click through and read some of he answers. Thank God I was never asked anything quite as weird as those.

[mudplanet]

1. My favorite: "Are you married?"

No wonder gay people don't "come out."

Oh, and, "Have you ever stolen anything." I wonder how many applicants actually answered that question honestly?

[Hello_Kitty]

4. It's illegal to ask if you're married. eom

[mudplanet]

5. I know, but what you gonna' do? I wouldn't want to work for the jackass anyway.

I'm a social worker and a lot of nonprofits that employ social workers require a share religious belief. Like being able to provide therapy to a battered woman or someone who is suicidal requires that you believe that the genesis of the problem is that the client isn't right with jebus.

What ya' gonna do? Spend all of your energy wrestling with idiots and jackasses, or pick your fights carefully?

[monmouth]

2. I remember during a last phase of an interview, being handed a

paper with these type questions being asked. I thanked the interviewer and got up and left after telling her I was capable and more than able to do the job I'm applying for. These stupid questions have nothing to do with my abilities, it's just providing some "analysts" with the task of finding out what makes me tick. No thanks." I understand I was not the first to walk out. Who would want to work for a company like this?

[mudplanet]

6. That's part of the design of the interview. One career Human Services

poster on DU responded to an earlier post on this same subject that it was entirely valid and appropriate for a company to judge whether a person was the type of person they wanted to employ on these questions.
And she was completely correct - Questions such as those listed above aren't literal but instead mean, "How much shit are you willing to swallow and how much crack will you lick in order to work for us?"

[KansDem]

3. "...how would you get out?"

Asked for an analyst position at Goldman Sachs.

Are we sure it wasn't, "...how would you get bailed out?"

I would think that successfully soliciting monies from the US Congress would be high on the list of interview questions for this gang of crooks...