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Top 10 weirdest interview questions in the world

admin April 03, 2015

At first, I’m sure you will be confused and startled, but possibly the company only try to check how you face with pressure, your way of thinking and whether you appropriate with company or not.

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If you are a candidate, take a look to prepare yourself. You are a recruiter? Here are interesting references for your recruitment solution, which are aggregated by Vietnam Manpower in the most recent interviews.
 
1. “Who are the winner in the fight between Spiderman and Superman?” – Healthcare employee – Stanford University.
 
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Smart approach way is giving some questions in perspective. For example, where would the fight happen? Is that a building? Do they have any special weapons?
 
2. “What’s your favorite 90s jam?” – Customer services – Squarespace
 
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The aim here is to define your personality. This kind of question will connect your answer with job characteristics. What if you can’t remember any songs? Choose other music type and explain why you like it.
 
3. “If you woke up with 2,000 unread emails and could answer only 300, what would you choose?” – Applying to Dropbox.
 
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Almost recruiters want to know your priority and classified your work with a huge workload, especially technology firms when deadline is coming and so many product problems appear.
 
4. “Describe the color yellow to a blind person” - flight attendant – Spirit Airlines
 
It sounds like impossible. However, this question tends to review your quickly respond ability. You could answer that you have asked a blind person about how they feel the sunlight, and using that answer to describe yellow (“warm” for example)
 
5. “If you had a machine that produced $100 dollars for life what would you be willing to pay for it today?” – Research analyst – Aksia
 
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Aksia is an investment consulting firm. So you could ask about inflation adjustment or competition. This machine was patented? How many company had the same products?
 
6. “What did you have for breakfast this morning?” – Sales employee – Banana Republic
 
Actually we have no idea what was behind this question. Maybe you should answer that you ate something healthful to prove you could work for whole day.
 
7. “What would you do if you were the one survivor in a plane crash?” – Safety and reliability staff of Airbnb
 
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This question wants to find the way you deal with a vague situation. And the advice is let the interviewers know you will consider the circumstance and assist people around you, check for any survive signs. Or you could answer: First, you will keep yourself safe, look for some help and then inform to others families.
 
8. “If you were asked to unload a 747 full of jelly beans, what would you do?” – IT assistant manage – Bose
 
This is an important job. Figure out more information before present your plan. For instant, who be there to help you, the time limit to unload, how it packs?
 
9. “How many people flew out of Chicago last year?” – Software engineer – Redbox
 
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Your mission is explaining your way of thinking and how you estimate a specific figure with innate information. Let them know the data you need to find the answer. You could even ask if it is allow to search in the internet. In all cases, the important is watching the react of interviewer to drive to a reasonable answer.
 
10. “What’s your favorite Disney Princess?” – Staff at Cold Stone Creamery Ice-cream firm.
 
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If you apply for a service related position, Cinderella could be a smart answer because she is hard-working, even have to face with many obstacles and also be loved. If you do not know any princesses, don’t worry, you can choose a lovely prince or superhero to replacement. 
 

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