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SITTING AN INTERVIEW for a job is never a fun experience.
You can go in and hope you handle the questions cooly and calmly without blurting out any embarrassing stories about yourself.
Sometimes the interviewer might throw a real curveball of a question.
CPL’s Employment Monitor found that 60% of interviewers will do this deliberately, often just to see how the interviewee handles under pressure.
CPL, along with job review website Glassdoor.com, looked at some of the weirder or ridiculous question Irish people have been asked in interviews.
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Interviwers and employment agencies are a load of shite. How many calls have I had from agencies and in the first few seconds you realise that the they have not even read your CV.
People forget recruiters is a big sales role. They are always looking for candidates (leads) so they can sell you if you are a good fit. Lot of underhanded techniques to try get as much information from you as possible.
Interviewer: Can you tell me tour weaknesses? Me: maybe my vagueness Interviewer: can you elaborate? Me: No
my firm hires hundreds of people every year and interviews thousands. we never ask trumped up nonesense questions like these. they tell you little or nothing about the candidate and only speak volumes of how much of a pratt the interviewer is. Good interviewers ask relevant behavioural or competency questions to assess your suitability for the role. everything else is hogwash.
Would the balloons be filled or empty.
Exactly. The answer could be one to infinity.
And beyond… Jack.
Be worse if they were condoms really, Sacha?
Chuck Norris counted to infinity twice.
Then he counted backwards from infinity…twice.
I see the Elephant decided to feck off….
Those questions are pissing me off now! Is the Journal going to publish the answers?
Few years ago got an interview with Google. Interviewer: “What will be Google’s next cash cow?” Me: “If I knew I wouldn’t be sitting here” Result: Didn’t get the job. Thank God !
What animal are you? Answer: Human.
That’s what I thought of too :D
My own interview for a job went quite well back in the day….
“How tall would you say that filing cabinet is?”
“Four foot six”
“Very good….can you start on Monday?”
(Back in the day ..we didn’t feck around)
Give us a hint
Like what is black, white and red all over…
A nun lying at the bottom of stairs?
Can you tell me what your weakness is?
“Probably my honesty ”
Really? I don’t think honesty is a weakness.
“I don’t give a f**k what you think”
Best comment of the week.
Is the answer to the 1 – 1000 question 10?!
MINIMUM number of guesses……1
Ah! It didn’t even register with me that it said minimum!
Must be 2, cause you must allow for questioner to respond “higher” or “lower”
This might be the answer is the question is “to be SURE to find the number”. But there is a chance that you might guess the correct number on guess 1 or 2, and if it is a requirement that the questioner be able to respond “higher” or “lower” as is immediately in the way the question is posed, then l believe that 2 is the answer.
Bloody predictive text. “Implied”, not “immediately”
Any software engineer or developer worth their salt would know the answer to the numbers question. Some of the other ones are stupid though.
I agree with your logic. And your algorithm. But as the question is phrased, chance is an element that cannot be ignored.
The answer is 1 – there is a 1000/1 chance that you will guess the number on the first try, making the higher/lower hint irrelevant.
its 0
some of these are ridiculous lol had a right oul’ chuckle reading them
Interviewer sits at table with feet on desk reading news paper and asks me to get his attention.
His cigarettes and lighter were off to one side.
So I picked up his lighter and lit his paper.
he shouted and yelled. I didn’t get the job
I was very upset.
There’s one outfit I came across where the head honcho who would ask interviewees to tell a joke and give the job to the one who whose joke fitted with his warped sense of humour.
Needless to say there were mistakes made in putting people into the wrong jobs.
The only price was paid by the unfortunate recruits.
put the elephant in a large container of water and weigh the amount of water he displaces
Sea water is heavier than fresh water lol.
Also, there’s no weighing scales. You could however measure the volume. I presume this is what you intended to say.
that would only give you the volume of the elephant
Yea, but everyone knows the density of an elephant. Multiply it out.. Simples..
I was asked at an interview for a Job in LIDL that if I speak Polish. And I said no bcaz I don’t and I didn’t get the job.
is bcaz the Polish for because?
Bullsh*it!
Dyslexia where the b is really a p? Like bricks is…
500?
Explain to me what has happened in this country during the last 10 years…. The rich got richer and everyone got taxed more for that?
If you were a superhero, who would it be? Superman as I could write my name in a wall after a few pints?
What colour best represents your personality? Red as blood is RED as are axe handles lol.
How many balloons would fit in this room? Not many as there seems to be too many p-ricks in this room for them lol.
Using a scale of 1 to 10, rate yourself on how weird you are. Say 15, now that is weird?
What’s the share price (of the company you are applying to)? YOU SHOULD KNOW YOURSELF AS YOU WORK HERE…
How do you weigh an elephant without using a scale? Elephants have hide and not scales and they don’t sing either?
What animal are you? I don’t know but I wouldn’t go near your sandpit out front for a while…
3 women apply for a cleaner’s job in a hospital:
1 is a qualified nurse, 1 is a qualified Doctor, 1 is a qualified surgeon….. Who gets the job?
The one with the best boobs!
Hint …Drop the zero’s
If you had a jumbo jet full of jelly beans how would you estimate how many were red?
Simple just see what Communist country the jet came from lol.
here is my answers 1. not enough 2. Stupid Question 3. Human 4. Me 5. I have a different spectrum 6.S.F.A. 7 1 or 0 8. Being here 9. that depends inflated or not? 10.Don’t get shrunk 11. I don’t discuss my investments 12. let’s talk about quantum physics 13. You Don’t
If you were shrunk to the size of a pencil and put in a blender, how would you get out?
Before it is turned on you mean or ask to be shrunk with the blender lol.
So explain quantum electrodynamics in two minutes, ask Schrödinger’s cat as it cleans his rear? lol.
Best response to the Animal one is … ‘What kind of animals do you hire ?’ ..
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