I like you,
When can you start?
20 Hardest Job interview questions
- Thread starter Lee
- Start date
When can you start?
What? Start taking his pills again?
I'm very happy to hear that you have a new job. Good luck with it.I've been to a few interviews recently and found quite a few of these interview questions thrown at me. Some are pure evil
Glad I've found a new job
The 20 hardest job interview questions in Britain – and how to answer them
1.
“What on your CV is the closest thing to a lie?” - Marketing and Communications Employee, The Phoenix Partnership
2.
“What am I thinking right now?” - Regional Director, TES Global
3.
“How would your enemy describe you?” - Advertising Sales Grad Scheme, Condé Nast
4.
“If you had a friend who was great for a job and an identical person who was just as good, but your friend earned you £2,000 less, who would you give the job to?” - Associate Recruitment Consultant, Hays plc
5.
“What's the most selfish thing you've ever done?” - Graduate Consultant, PageGroup
6.
“You are stranded on the moon with a group of other astronauts and you need to travel 200 miles back to base, here is a list of 15 items salvaged from the wreckage of the spacecraft you were travelling in. List them in order of importance.” - Sales Employee, Turnstone Sales
7.
“If your best friend was here what advice would he give you?” - CCP, American Express
8.
“Describe your biggest weakness. Then describe another.” - Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Palantir Technologies
9.
“How do you cope with repetition?” - Product Specialist, Tesla Motors
10.
“How would you describe cloud computing to a 7 year old?” - Graduate Scheme, Microsoft
11.
“There are three people, each with different salaries, and they want to find the average of them without telling any of the other two their salary. How do they do it?” - Technical Delivery Graduate, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence
12.
“Who is your hero, and why?” - Product Quality Employee, GE
13.
“What’s your the biggest regret managing people so far?” - Area Director, Regus
14.
“What would you ask the CEO if you met him one day?” - Performance Analyst, British Airways
15.
“You have 50 red and 50 blue objects. Split these however you like between two containers to give the minimum/maximum probability of drawing one of the colours” - Operations Analyst, Clearwater Analytics
16.
“What does social justice mean to you?” - Content Marketing Manager, ThoughtWorks
17.
“What is your coping mechanism when you have a bad day?” - Consultant, Switch Consulting
18.
“Are you a nice guy?” - Product Manager, Badoo
19.
“Provide an estimate for the number of goals in the premier league.” - Management Accountant, VAX
20.
“Tell me about your childhood.” - Learning and Development Employee, Next
Some answers to the questions:
1. “What on your CV is the closest thing to a lie?”
The only thing "CV" means to me is constant velocity as in a CV joint, and the only thing on it is grease and a boot.
2. “What am I thinking right now?”
Your probably thinking "How much longer do I have to interview this a$$h@le so I can go to lunch".
3, “How would your enemy describe you?”
Of all the guys I hate, he has the nicest car, a Z3.
4. “If you had a friend who was great for a job and an identical person who was just as good, but your friend earned you £2,000 less, who would you give the job to?”
I'd give it to my friend and work with him to get up to the extra 2000 pounds of output.
5. “What's the most selfish thing you've ever done?”
Getting a hoagy in this bag here for lunch after the interview and not bringing one for you.
6. “You are stranded on the moon with a group of other astronauts and you need to travel 200 miles back to base, here is a list of 15 items salvaged from the wreckage of the spacecraft you were travelling in. List them in order of importance.”
I'd first think about bringing any of the guys that lived through the crash..............
7. “If your best friend was here what advice would he give you?”
To get up now and walk out of this interview.
8. “Describe your biggest weakness. Then describe another.”
Allowing myself to sit through this interview. Not advising the other 6 guys waiting to come in here not to waste their time as I walk past them when i'm leaving here.
9. “How do you cope with repetition?”
Tell the 6 girls waiting outside my hotel room that they're no longer needed.
10. “How would you describe cloud computing to a 7 year old?”
First I'd have to ask him to explain it to me.
11. “There are three people, each with different salaries, and they want to find the average of them without telling any of the other two their salary. How do they do it?”
If they really need to find the average, I'd tell them to give me their salaries, then I'll add it all up, divide it by three and give them the answer. The fee for this answer is their salary.
12. “Who is your hero, and why?”
A guy names @hard top because of his opinion of me. I'll leave it up to you to find out what it is.
13. “What’s your the biggest regret managing people so far?”
Managing people.
14. “What would you ask the CEO if you met him one day?”
How do you justify your salary?
15. “You have 50 red and 50 blue objects. Split these however you like between two containers to give the minimum/maximum probability of drawing one of the colours”
If they're the only thing in the containers, there's 100% chance I'll draw one of the colors.
16. “What does social justice mean to you?” -
Giving a guy named @Grumpy in our forum the 'Picture of the Year' award.
17. “What is your coping mechanism when you have a bad day?”
You would ask this question of a sheep rancher?
18. “Are you a nice guy?”
Depends how much you pay me.
19. “Provide an estimate for the number of goals in the premier league.”
I could care less how many goals a bunch of overpaid gits have.
20. “Tell me about your childhood.”
What childhood? Did you even look at my work resume?????
Last edited:
I'll bake you a cake even if it isn't your birthday
Experience supersedes any qualification. End of........