Silliest Interview Questions

Sound Bite

A friend had an interview with a medical devices company yesterday and two of the questions asked were:

(1) What would you do if you wont the lotto?
(2) Are you a dog or a cat person? :rolleyes:

What is the silliest/wierdest interview questions you've ever been asked?

KeithM89_old

Whats your favourite website?? :rolleyes:

Micky Dolenz

Would you do anything for this job?

Dirty baxtard.

Superbus

Sound Bite wrote: »

A friend had an interview with a medical devices company yesterday and two of the questions asked were:

(1) What would you do if you wont the lotto?
(2) Are you a dog or a cat person? :rolleyes:

What is the silliest/wierdest interview questions you've ever been asked?

I s'pose you could kinda judge the kind of person they are by, at least, the first question.

Second one is fluff though.

FreudianSlippers

I haven't had an interview in years, but I hate that "where do you see yourself in 5 years?" b.s. question. No one ever answers honestly.
I'd love to just be like "hm, 5 years? I'd have to say in 5 years I'd like to be on a private island going to town on Miranda Kerr...."

bonerm

What good movies had I seen recently.

FreudianSlippers

KeithM89 wrote: »

Whats your favourite website?? :rolleyes:

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Edit: bahaha it's censored! I said g**tse.cx

minidazzler

Superbus wrote: »

I s'pose you could kinda judge the kind of person they are by, at least, the first question.

Second one is fluff though.

Second one is brilliant, I know I would never want to work with a Cat person, cat's suck!

Revolution9

Are you a homosexual?

FreudianSlippers

Revolution9 wrote: »

Are you a homosexual?

lol "are you now or have you ever been a pedophile?"

MonkeyTennis

Tell us a joke.

Stumped me. Good question though.

Mark200

OisinT wrote: »

I haven't had an interview in years, but I hate that "where do you see yourself in 5 years?" b.s. question. No one ever answers honestly.
I'd love to just be like "hm, 5 years? I'd have to say in 5 years I'd like to be on a private island going to town on Miranda Kerr...."

What's a good answer to that Q btw?

sxt

I got asked this one two combination before..."How would your friends describe you?" which is fine ...followed by "How would your enemies desribe you? WTF!...I answered this question the same as the first just to see the look on her repugnant face

Nolanger

Got asked was I on medication at an bank interview in the Burlington hotel once. The receptionist said they were all Garda so maybe it was a sting?

Donkey Oaty

MonkeyTennis wrote: »

Tell us a joke.

Stumped me. Good question though.

It's a great question.

Interview tip: not everyone sees the funny side of necrophilia.

FreudianSlippers

Mark200 wrote: »

What's a good answer to that Q btw?

Why, 5 years from now I intend to be mindlessly doing monotonous tasks for little to no wages at this very company sir/madam!

MitchKoobski

"We expect you to be able to be calm with customers and solve tough calls by yourself. What would happen if they were shouting?"
"Calmly explain that I am here to help."
"But what if it didnt work?"
"Remain calm and ask again how I can help as I can solve their problem."
"But what if it didn't work still?"
"Ask the customer again to stay calm and explain the problem?"
"But what if it STILL didnt work?"
"I'm pretty sure it would."
"But what if?"
"It would work."
"But what if!?"
"Jesus I don't know hand it to a supervisor?"
"Exactly! Took your time there..."
:mad:

"We expect you to be able to be calm with customers and solve tough calls by yourself. What would happen if they were shouting?"

"Jesus I don't know hand it to a supervisor?"
"Exactly! Took your time there..."

FUUUUUUUUUU

orourkeda

How big is your shaft?

Bodhidharma

I was asked what I would like to be if I could be anything in the world

I said Professional Footballer

Stupid HR wan got all confused and said 'I mean in this industry'

They ask questions to see how good your lies are

Cullen82

Mark200 wrote: »

What's a good answer to that Q btw?

The best way to do this is to FLIP it on the interviewer, like so:


Interviewer: Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

You: No no, The question is where do YOU see YOURSELF in 5 years?



Then copy their answer;)

Killer Pigeon

Have you ever or ever been tempted to engage in an act of bestiality?

winter soldier

i was once asked at an interview did i possess common sense and from marks out of ten how would i rate my common sense .

Cullen82

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

Have you ever engaged in an act of bestiality?

And have you?

orourkeda

OisinT wrote: »

I haven't had an interview in years, but I hate that "where do you see yourself in 5 years?" b.s. question. No one ever answers honestly.
I'd love to just be like "hm, 5 years? I'd have to say in 5 years I'd like to be on a private island going to town on Miranda Kerr...."

I was giving serious consideration to just saying piledrving kelly brooke into the bed.

Killer Pigeon

Cullen82 wrote: »

And have you?

no, have you?

My name is URL

What are your weaknesses?

Does anyone ever answer that question truthfully like? Actually all interview questions are stupid when you think about it.. they should have stanardised exams instead!

Lux23

Does my bum look in big this skirt?

The answer is always no.

I have an italian surname and several times I was asked if I own a chipper? I mean grown people have actually thought this was an appropriate question to ask.

Ruu_Old

When I moved from Ireland to the US, I quickly went through a bunch of interviews to get the feel of things. 90% of the interviews was me being questioned on things in Ireland.
I too have had the friends/enemies question thrown at me, mentioned previously!

FreudianSlippers

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

Have you ever or ever been tempted to engage in an act of bestiality?

Only with yer ma!


ZING

Cullen82

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

no, have you?

Had to google what it meant:o

Do ugly birds or bet down dogs count?

FreudianSlippers

My name is URL wrote: »

What are your weaknesses?

Does anyone ever answer that question truthfully like? Actually all interview questions are stupid when you think about it.. they should have stanardised exams instead!

I'd just say "lifting heavy objects"

I always ask interviewers "do you enjoy working here?"
They have to say yes of course, but how they say it gives away a lot. Plus the look of surprise

thankfully I haven't been asked stupid questions in interviews yet...

Wade in the Sea

Did an interview for the navy once:

Officer: Can you swim?
Me: Why, haven't you got a ship for me.....:D
Officer: :mad:
Me:
Officer: :mad:
Me:
Officer: :mad:
Me:

Antigone05

was having a interview with Woodies DIY when i was 16 or so, part time job. 1998

Half way through the interview i was asked a very odd question.

' Have you ever predicted what another co-worker was thinking'

...after a few minutes of silence on my end he just said 'you can say no never'

so i said , 'no'.

I never got the job

Apparently they only hire the likes of Mystic Meg and Derren Brown

Cullen82

My name is URL wrote: »

What are your weaknesses?

Does anyone ever answer that question truthfully like? Actually all interview questions are stupid when you think about it.. they should have stanardised exams instead!

Ha too true, Well considering the honest answer would be.. ehhhh I'm always late, Hardly ever in, I take a while to cop on, I can't even spell Multitask and I normally go to the pub for Lunch.....sometimes I don't come back;)


The job's yours:pac::pac::pac::pac:

Sound Bite

Cullen82 wrote: »

Ha too true, Well considering the honest answer would be.. ehhhh I'm always late, Hardly ever in, I take a while to cop on, I can't even spell Multitask and I normally go to the pub for Lunch.....sometimes I don't come back;)


The job's yours:pac::pac::pac::pac:

Ha HA. Saw your other thread earlier....looks like your new employers got themselves a great deal! Congrats btw.

Copper23

I got asked a riddle once about dropping an egg from a ladder...

Something about the smallest number of eggs possible to break to find the heighest rung of a ladder you can drop the egg without breaking.

Some apptitude rubbish... The more I reasoned the more they disagreed to the point I was convinced I was right and had to give up...

At that point they guy told me thats grand, he was just testing how far he could push me before cracking, they wanted to work with someone who was a bit of craic

Cullen82

Sound Bite wrote: »

Ha HA. Saw your other thread earlier....looks like your new employers got themselves a great deal! Congrats btw.

Mental note to self: Don't publicise your many, many flaws!

Haha Thanks Sound Bite - it's far from done though - Between myself and 3 others for the "Dream Job" so the rest of today has felt :eek::eek::rolleyes::eek:

MistyCheese

Wade in the Sea wrote: »

Did an interview for the navy once:

Officer: Can you swim?

The officer was probably thrown by your name. :P

FreudianSlippers

antidark777 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP0sqRMzkwo

fail.

mary01

Do you have a car? Yes
What's it's name?

DerekDGoldfish

I hate interviews, I once ****ed one up because I spent the whole time wondering if the interviewer was pregnant or fat.

Pherekydes

"If you could change just one thing about yourself, what would it be?"

"My gender."

Truley

Interviewer: 'Do you have any secrets?'
Me: Eh?
Interviewer: Tell us something about yourself that nobody else knows...

Very strange question, had me stumped. It was a pretty fancy job too in a well known third level institution.

I also did on of those group interviews where we spend the day in a conference room doing all sorts of silly tasks (there's a name for it can't remember for the life of me.) Some of the games included treasure hunts around the town, going up to random strangers and asking silly questions, word puzzles etc

FreudianSlippers

DerekDGoldfish wrote: »

I hate interviews, I once ****ed one up because I spent the whole time wondering if the interviewer was pregnant or fat.

That's one of my favourite games! Pregnant or fat?!

myflipflops

Any question a HR person has ever asked in an interview. Complete rubbish like:

'How would you define yourself as an emplyee?'

Well, it's an interview, obviously I'm gonna 'define' myself as a f*cking brilliant employee. Idiots.

I'm usually tempted to just walk straight out if a HR person is present.

Gummy Panda

minidazzler wrote: »

Second one is brilliant, I know I would never want to work with a Cat person, cat's suck!

Even a lv30 Wizrdcat?

Sea Sharp

Give us an example of when you did something wrong in your previous job and how did you deal with the consequences?

Tricky question, it can't be something too wrong or it makes you look bad. You need to be a good bullsh1ter to get through that.

Celly Smunt

Sea Sharp wrote: »

Give us an example of when you did something wrong in your previous job and how did you deal with the consequences?

Tricky question, it can't be something too wrong or it makes you look bad. You need to be a good bullsh1ter to get through that.

rule number one ALWAYS turn your negative into a positive

e.g "the time i got something wrong was when i was given a task to do but only half got it finished,however the area which i was working wasn't fit for work and was unsafe therefore i had to warn all employees about the hazard and inform the manager to keep up our health and safety reputation" KACHINGGG!!

Wade in the Sea

Would you say you have any flaws?

Well I would have to say no, not unless you think there's anything wrong with necrophillia eh eh eh ?


ahem.......yes, my Time Management, could eh, do with a bit of work.:o

Einhard

My name is URL wrote: »

What are your weaknesses?

Does anyone ever answer that question truthfully like? Actually all interview questions are stupid when you think about it.. they should have stanardised exams instead!

Well, I didn't like this admitting this, but I'm a bit of a workaholic. And I'm competitive. Perfectionist too...