Ever been tempted to throw a quixotic question into the interview situation? Well, you’re not alone.
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Ever been tempted to throw a quixotic question into the interview situation? Well, you’re not alone.
Career advice site Glassdoor scoured tens of thousands of interview questions that job candidates shared with them last year to compile a list of the 25 strangest.
Beyond providing an amusing read, such questions may be genuinely useful. Given the preparedness of the modern job candidate, it’s likely that they are ready for most of the standard questions on your list. Asking them something unexpected may provide a useful insight.
“Oddball questions can be a powerful tool to glean information about a potential candidate as long as they are used correctly. If the interviewer doesn’t know what he or she is looking for, then throwing out a strange question just for the sake of doing it will be pointless,” Donna Fuscaldo wrote on Glassdoor. Interviewers should consider the role that they are filling, and what sort of person would fill it well, and what sort of question would cause the candidate to divulge the information that they were after.
With that in mind, here are ten of the best, along with who asked them:
