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clipperskipper 01-16-2011 11:40 AM

Bizzarre Interview Questions:
 
It looks as if HR is getting more savvy to interview questions and are rapidly changing these questions in order to see if you can think outside the box. Personally, I believe the purpose is to throw the interviewee off guard. How some one responds to a bizarre question often speaks volumes on their personality traits and how they handle stress and unexpected events.

Q:You're a pencil trapped inside a blender, how would you get out?

Q: If you could be a superhero, what would you want your superpowers to be? Be careful here not to be gender sensitive.

Q: How many ridges are on a quarter?

Q: An apple is 20 cents, an orange is 40 cents, and a grapefruit is 60 cents. How much is a pear?

N9373M 01-16-2011 11:49 AM

the answer to each of these is "Tuesday"

FlyerJosh 01-16-2011 11:50 AM


Originally Posted by clipperskipper (Post 931041)
It looks as if HR is getting more savvy to interview questions and are rapidly changing these questions in order to see if you can think outside the box. Personally, I believe the purpose is to throw the interviewee off guard. How some one responds to a bizarre question often speaks volumes on their personality traits and how they handle stress and unexpected events.

Q:You're a pencil trapped inside a blender, how would you get out?

Q: If you could be a superhero, what would you want your superpowers to be? Be careful here not to be gender sensitive.

Q: How many ridges are on a quarter?

Q: An apple is 20 cents, an orange is 40 cents, and a grapefruit is 60 cents. How much is a pear?

I don't really see the point of some of the more abstract questions, but whatever...

If I'm a pencil trapped in a blender, getting out isn't a concern since as an inanimate object I have no concerns.

If I were a superhero my special talent would be to be able to stop time. Then when I wanted to lay around all day on the couch, naked, I could do so without my wife bugging me about it.

How many ridges on a quarter? Enough. Actually it's 119 (and according the US Treasury, they're called reeds). Why are there 119? Because 120 wouldn't fit.

The pear costs whatever the price tag says it costs.

FlyerJosh 01-16-2011 11:50 AM

What is the terminal velocity of an unladen swallow?

N9373M 01-16-2011 12:02 PM


Originally Posted by FlyerJosh (Post 931049)
What is the terminal velocity of an unladen swallow?

African or European?

lakehouse 01-16-2011 12:59 PM

115 if wet

UnusualAttitude 01-16-2011 01:06 PM

Netflix...

hc0fitted 01-16-2011 01:54 PM


Originally Posted by clipperskipper (Post 931041)

Q:You're a pencil trapped inside a blender, how would you get out?



If I were a pencil trapped inside a blender, I would just draw myself a hole and get out!!

N9373M 01-16-2011 02:12 PM


Originally Posted by hc0fitted (Post 931104)
if i were a pencil trapped inside a blender, i would just draw myself a hole and get out!!

you're hired!!!!!

clipperskipper 01-16-2011 02:20 PM


Originally Posted by hc0fitted (Post 931104)
If I were a pencil trapped inside a blender, I would just draw myself a hole and get out!!

That's pretty creative, who said watching Tom & Jerry wasn't educational? Another suggested writing a note which read "please let me out". I erased the blender, problem solved.


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