Hit me with your hardest interview questions!

[Stressedgiraffe]

I have a 2nd formal interview on Monday.
So I'm going to prep over the weekend..
I really want this job to away from a toxic manager and its a promotion.
But I'm looking for your hardest/ wackiest questions you've been asked?

Agree think of the question you struggled with the most and prepare for it to be asked again in a different way.

Go back through the JD & person spec and see what they didn't ask about at first interview. The 2nd will often cover those bits.

If first interview was mainly technically focused about knowledge, skills & expertise, 2nd may focus on your people skills/personal qualities.
Also they may focus on the values of the organisation (so read up on those) and might ask equality, diversity, inclusion type questions at stage 2 (e.g: how would you support/promote ED&I in the workplace).

Good call on the Chat/AI search - would never have thought of that!

For a question like that, where it lacks important information, I'd say

1. it depends how I got to know - I wouldn't take it as fact if someone told me Jane was lying repeatedly, I would try to find out more (shows you are fair minded, have integrity and don't make false assumptions)
2. if Jane told me she was lying on her timesheet, because we were friends outside as well as being colleagues I would have a quiet word and say to her that now I know, I am duty bound to report her to see if she would fess up and tell our Manager herself (this shows you act with discretion and give her the opportunity to put things right)
3. if I was the checker of timesheets and Jane was lying because I saw her leaving work an hour earlier on several occasions, I would have a meeting, point out the discrepancies and ask her why she was reporting her attendance inaccurately. I would get her to correct the inaccuracies and give her a final warning that if I found any future discrepancies, I would have to report her to our manager. (This shows you have a backbone and don't allow a friendship to come in the way of honesty and integrity).

How would your friends describe you?

Isn't that the easiest question in the world?

hard-working, good sense of humour, loyal and generous to a fault, dazzling intellect - and modest of course