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ODDBALL INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
Glassdoor.com, a jobs and career community, compiled a list of quite unique and interesting interview questions asked of job candidates throughout 2011.
Here are some of MGO’s favorites:
- If Germans were the tallest people in the world, how would you prove it? (Hewlett-Packard)
- Room, desk and car — which do you clean first? (Pinkberry)
- Would Mahatma Gandhi have made a good software engineer? (Deloitte)
- Please spell “diverticulitis.†(EMSI Engineering)
- How would you get an elephant into a refrigerator? (Horizon Group Properties)
- Are you exhaling warm air? (Walker Marketing)
- How would you cure world hunger? (Amazon.com)
- Is your college GPA reflective of your potential? (Advisory Board)
- Just entertain me for five minutes; I’m not going to talk. (Acosta)
- If you were a Microsoft Office program, which one would you be? (Summit Racing Equipment)
- What do you think of garden gnomes? (Trader Joe’s)
- Name 5 uses of a stapler without staple pins. (EvaluServe)
- How many different ways can you get water from a lake at the foot of a mountain, up to the top of the mountain? (Disney Parks & Resorts)
- Given 20 ‘destructible’ light bulbs (which breaks at certain height), and a building with 100 floors, how do you determine the height that the light bulb breaks? (Qualcomm)
- If you could be a superhero, what power would you possess? (Rain and Hail Insurance)
See full article at http://www.glassdoor.com/blog/top-25-oddball-interview-questions-2011/
