December 4, 2020
Weird interview questions to ask
"Choose a city and estimate how many piano tuners operate a business there."
Asked by Google for a project-manager position.
"How much do you charge to wash every window in Seattle?"
Asked by Facebook for an online sales-operations position.
"What do you think of lava lamps? And 'Dilbert'?"
Asked by Boeing for an engineer position.
Source: Glassdoor
"How many children are born every day?"
YouTubeAsked by Apple for a global supply-manager position.
"What's your favorite color?"
Asked by Hess for an assistant-manager position.
"Design a spice rack for the blind."
Asked by Intel for a hardware engineer position.
"Tell me a story."
Thomas Lohnes / Getty ImagesAsked by Celgene for a corporate-communications position.
"If you had a choice between two superpowers — being invisible or flying — which would you choose?"
Asked by Microsoft for a high-level product lead/evangelist position.
"What do you do if you are approached by an employee who is complaining about a colleague who has horrible body odor?"
Asked by MasterCard for an operations-leader position.
"What kind of tree would you be?"
Asked by Cisco for a senior technical-writer position.
"What were you like as a child?"
Asked by Biogen Idec for an area business-manager position.