Silliest Interview Questions

08-09-2010 08:28PM

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 · 08-09-2010 08:28PM

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:

Antigone05 · 08-09-2010 08:28PM

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 · 08-09-2010 08:31PM

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 · 08-09-2010 08:38PM

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 · 08-09-2010 08:41PM

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 · 08-09-2010 08:43PM

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 · 08-09-2010 08:54PM

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 · 08-09-2010 09:24PM

antidark777 wrote: »

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fail.

mary01 · 08-09-2010 09:34PM

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

DerekDGoldfish · 08-09-2010 09:42PM

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

Pherekydes · 08-09-2010 09:49PM

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

"My gender."

Truley · 08-09-2010 09:53PM

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 · 08-09-2010 10:04PM

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 · 08-09-2010 10:14PM

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 · 08-09-2010 10:18PM

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 · 08-09-2010 10:22PM

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 · 08-09-2010 10:34PM

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 · 09-09-2010 02:08AM

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 · 09-09-2010 02:22AM

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...

robbie_998 · 09-09-2010 03:24AM

OisinT wrote: »

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

its a fun game to play when the interviewer is a guy :pac:

my lastest questions "what movies have you seen recently"

"oh yeah i think i saw that. what did you think of it ?"

"what games do you own and do you play a lot ?"

"see the match the other day ?"

09-09-2010 08:46AM

Truley wrote: »

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.

lol
I think I'd just blurt out "eh, no?"

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

Is that an assessment centre

robbie_998 wrote: »

"what games do you own and do you play a lot ?"

My favourite interview was when we talked about our WoW characters

Tranceypoo · 09-09-2010 09:03AM

myflipflops wrote: »

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.

HR Departments/people - what IS the point of them?!

I was once asked "If you had to pick up Mick Hucknall from the airport at 5 in the morning, what would you say to him" (in context, this was an interview for an Artist Liaison position at a major record label)

Sofa King Great · 09-09-2010 09:15AM

Tranceypoo wrote: »

I was once asked "If you had to pick up Mick Hucknall from the airport at 5 in the morning, what would you say to him" (in context, this was an interview for an Artist Liaison position at a major record label)

Question is far better if taken out of context

kfallon · 09-09-2010 09:29AM

Where were you on the night of 5th September?
Do you have an alibi for that night?

stovelid · 09-09-2010 09:39AM

What are your salary expectations?

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