Over the past year, interview
candidates just about everywhere shared some of the most difficult, or
unexpected interview questions on Glassdoor, a jobs and
career community. We¡¯ve looked back on thousands of these questions, across a
range of jobs, companies and industries. Here¡¯s our take on the top 25 oddball
interview questions of 2011:
1. ¡°How many people are using
Facebook in San Francisco at 2:30pm on a Friday?¡± – view
answersAsked at Google. More
Google interview questions.
2. ¡°Just entertain me for five
minutes, I¡¯m not going to talk.¡± – view
answersAsked at Acosta. More
Acosta interview questions.
3. ¡°If Germans were the tallest
people in the world, how would you prove it?¡± – view
answersAsked at Hewlett-Packard. More
Hewlett-Packard interview questions.
4. ¡°What do you think of garden gnomes?¡± – view
answersAsked at Trader
Joe¡¯s. More
Trader Joe¡¯s interview questions.
5. ¡°Is your college GPA
reflective of your potential?¡± – view
answersAsked at the Advisory
Board. More
Advisory Board interview questions.
6. ¡°Would Mahatma Gandhi have
made a good software engineer?¡± – view answersAsked at Deloitte. More
Deloitte interview questions.
7. ¡°If you could be #1 employee
but have all your coworkers dislike you or you could be #15 employee and have
all your coworkers like you, which would you choose?¡± – view
answersAsked at ADP. More
ADP interview questions.
8. ¡°How would you cure world
hunger?¡± – view
answersAsked at Amazon.com. More
Amazon.com interview questions.
9. ¡°Room, desk and car – which do
you clean first?¡± – view
answersAsked at Pinkberry. More
Pinkberry interview questions.
10. ¡°Does life fascinate you?¡± – view
answersAsked at Ernst
& Young. More
Ernst & Young interview questions.
11. ¡°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?¡± – view
answersAsked at QUALCOMM. More
QUALCOMM interview questions.
12. ¡°Please spell
¡®diverticulitis¡¯.¡± – view
answersAsked at EMSI
Engineering. More
EMSI Engineering interview questions.
13. ¡°Name 5 uses of a stapler
without staple pins.¡± – view
answersAsked at EvaluServe. More
EvaluServe interview questions
14. ¡°How much money did residents
of Dallas/Ft. Worth spend on gasoline in 2008?¡± – view
answersAsked at American
Airlines. More
American Airlines interview questions.
15. ¡°How would you get an
elephant into a refrigerator?¡± – view
answersAsked at Horizon
Group Properties. More
Horizon Group Properties interview questions.
16. ¡°You have a bouquet of
flowers. All but two are roses, all but two are daisies, and all but two are
tulips. How many flowers do you have?¡± – view
answersAsked at Epic
Systems. More
Epic Systems interview questions.
17. ¡°How many planes are
currently flying over Kansas?¡± – view
answersAsked at Best
Buy. More
Best Buy interview questions.
18. ¡°How many different ways can
you get water from a lake at the foot of a mountain, up to the top of the
mountain?¡± – view
answersAsked at Disney
Parks & Resorts. More
Disney Parks & Resorts interview questions.
19. ¡°What is 37 times 37?¡± – view answersAsked at Jane Street Capital. More
Jane Street Capital interview questions.
20. ¡°If you could be a superhero,
what power would you possess?¡± – view
answersAsked at Rain
and Hail Insurance. More
Rain and Hail Insurance interview questions.
21. ¡°If you were a Microsoft
Office program, which one would you be?¡± – view answersAsked at Summit Racing Equipment. More
Summit Racing Equipment interview questions.
22. ¡°Pepsi or Coke?¡± – view
answersAsked at United
Health Group. More
United Health Group interview questions.
23. ¡°Are you exhaling warm air?¡±
– view
answersAsked at Walker
Marketing. More
Walker Marketing interview questions.
24. ¡°You¡¯re in a row boat, which
is in a large tank filled with water. You have an anchor on board, which you
throw overboard (the chain is long enough so the anchor rests completely on the
bottom of the tank). Does the water level in the tank rise or fall?¡± – view
answersAsked at Tesla
Motors. More
Tesla Motors interview questions.
25. ¡°How do you feel about those
jokers at Congress?¡± – view
answersAsked at Consolidated
Electrical. More
Consolidated Electrical interview questions.
These are just a handful of the 150,000+ interview questions
Glassdoor has collected from job interview candidates through our Interview Reviews. Got
a good response to any of these questions? Make sure to leave your attempt at
the answers through the above links. Interviewed lately? We hope you¡¯ll tell us about it!