Tell me your odd interview questions?

[topcat2014]

Had a pleasant interview today, but with very old school questions like:

How would your former colleagues describe you?
What charities do you support and why?
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Who is your role model

I guess I'd got so used to competency based stuff I'd forgotten how to deal with this.

I was thrown in an interview recently by really really basic questions. Sounds silly, but I hadn’t even thought about answers and I got a mind blank! Kind of trying not to give daft answers and over-complicating it

“How many litres of water do you think could fit in this room”

The role I was interviewing had no need for whatever skills you’d need to make a good guess that this (spatial awareness, plus the knowledge of how many litres fit in a metre cubed I guess. I know the second part but have absolutely zero ability to judge the size of anything, is it 2m, is it 5m, I have no idea) but the interview was at Thames Water so I guess they just threw a water question in there. They also asked me my favourite superhero 🙄

I had an interview at MNHQ many years ago. They asked my favourite children’s film.

I was once asked about what jobs my parents did and did I picture myself as more ambitious than they are?

I honestly hate all those pointless questions. Especially if you’re applying for a min wage job really the only answer you need to give to ‘why do you want the job?’ Is cause I want to be able to live and afford things, and I’m willing to clean / stack shelves / work a till in order to achieve that. More skilled roles should have questions specific to the job role.

My interview for DLA ( before PIP) many years ago.
I'd been thrown under a bus. Been in a coma. Crushed pelvis.. broken .
Same with hips and other multiple things.
I lost part of my colon/ bowels.

Was asked.. when are you expecting your bowels to grow back?
🤷‍♀️

'How many countries have you visited, and what percentage of all the countries in the world is that?' Mate, I can do mental arithmetic, but it's very hard to count up quickly and then do the maths with some smug twat peering at me over his bridged fingers. It was for a six week summer job, data entry 🙄

'Do you go to church?' Computer programmer role. I got the job, my answer was 'Never in office hours'. The interviewer left soon after to become a vicar.

Usual "what do you not like about your current employment".

My boss is a narcissistic, micro-managing piece of shit and I want to smash his face in.

Don't think that would have gone down too well.

What flavour ice cream do you resemble, what dog would you be

What’s your superpower?

That is such a backdoor way into asking what they really want to know, which is “what class background are you?”

Them > how would you clean the titanic ?
Me thinking wtf !
> The same way they cleaned the Mary rose.

By the look on there face the person interviewing me had obviously never heard of the Mary Rose 🤨