Are you ready for oddball interview questions?

Submitted by manager on Tue, 2012-01-31 12:51

Oddball interview questions are becoming a lot more common today. Why? They require you to think fast. Your answer can be very telling about how you reason.

Here are the top 10 oddball interview questions of 2011, as compiled by Glassdoor.com:

1. “How many people are using Facebook in San Francisco at 2:30pm on a Friday?” – Asked at Google

2. “Just entertain me for five minutes, I’m not going to talk.” – Asked at Acosta

3. “If Germans were the tallest people in the world, how would you prove it?” – Asked at Hewlett-Packard

4. “What do you think of garden gnomes?” – Asked at Trader Joe’s

5. “Is your college GPA reflective of your potential?” – Asked at the Advisory Board

6. “Would Mahatma Gandhi have made a good software engineer?” – Asked at Deloitte

7. “If you could be #1 employee but have all your coworkers dislike you or you could be #15 employee and have all your coworkers like you, which would you choose?” – Asked at ADP.

8. “How would you cure world hunger?” – Asked at Amazon.com

9. “Room, desk and car – which do you clean first?” – Asked at Pinkberry

10. “Does life fascinate you?” – Asked at Ernst & Young