23 Real Job Interview Questions You Don't Want to Be Asked

8/2/2019 23 Real Job Interview Questions You Don't Want to Be Asked

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1. Why was your GPA not a 4.0?

Job: Wireless Engineer at Apple

2. There 1,000 buckets, one of them contains poison, the rest of themare filled with water. They all look the same. If a pig drinks that poison, itwill die within 30 minutes. What is the minimum number of pigs to youneed to figure out which bucket contains the poison within one hour?

Job: Trading Analyst at Accuen

3. How many piano tuners are there in Massachusetts?

Job: Game Porting Technical at Happy Cloud

4.0 Name three things that, if you were told were part of the job, wouldcause you to not take the position.
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2/11

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Job:Applications Support at Allant Group

4. A 22- or 23-year-old girl, who is getting a bachelor's degree, is taking her 100-year-oldgrandmother for her driving test. What can you say about this family?

By codydavisphotos on Flickr

Job:Actuarial Analyst at AAA NCNU Insurance Exchang
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3/11

5. If for some reason you came in late to work (weather, woke up late,

etc), how would you compensate our company for the time?

Fisher power! via flickr

Job: Field Engineer at Schlumberger

6. Do you mind not seeing your family, wife, or children for weeks at a

time?

lindaaslund via Flickr

Job: Field Engineer at Schlumberger
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4/11

7.0 How much is one over two times the square root of pi?

{Jadranka} via Flickr

Job: Summer Analyst at Barclays Capital

8.0 Why should we hire you? You don't seem like our type.

By What is in us on Flickr

Job:Account Executive at EMC
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5/11

9.0 There are 25 horses and 5 race tracks. How many races need tobe run to select the top 5 horses?

Job: Business Operations Analyst at Google

10.Sing a few lines of your favorite song.

Job: Trainee Network Engineer at HCL Comnet Systems and Services Limited
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6/11

11.0Have you ever stolen pens from work?

By Buffwhat on Flickr

Job: Management Trainee at Bank of America

12.Having an infinite supply of water and two containers, one for 3liters and one for 5 liters, how would you measure 4 liters?

theowl84 via Flickr

Job: Software Development Engineer at Amazon.com
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7/11

13.We see you have cooking as a hobby on your C.V. Are youpragmatic or academic when it comes to cooking?

missmeng via Flickr

Job: Intern at Goldman Sachs

14.You are on a game show. There are three doors. Behind one ofthem is a prize; the other two have coal. The host knows which door

holds the prize. You choose door #1. Before it is opened, the hostopens door #3 and reveals a lump of coal. You have the choice to stickwith the door you chose originally or switch to door #2. What do youdo?

anyjazz65 via Flickr

Job: Program Manager at Microsoft
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8/11

15.How many people can you fit into Texas?

WHardcastle via Flickr

Job:Associate Consultant at Liberty Mutual

16.How many scale measurements does it take to know which of eightballs weighs the most? How many would 28 balls take?
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9/11

17. Would a stack of quarters the height of the Empire State Buildingfit into a normal-sized room?

Job: People Programs Specialist at Google

18.Tell me a joke.

World Prout Assembly

Job: Investment Banker at JPMorgan Chase
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10/11

19.Estimate the revenue of M&M's in the US.

alexioviaFlickr

Job: Commercial Due Diligence Intern at Ernst & Young

20.If I were to tell you that you aren't ambitious, how would you refute

me?

Photo: jtuason (Flickr)

Job:Associate Consultant at Liberty Mutual
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11/11

21.Why are manholes round?

Job: Supply Chain at Schlumberger

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