Legendary among Silicon Valley startups, the brainteaser and oddball genres of interview questions can sometime reveal the creative or critical-thinking skills of the job candidate. Many of these are intended for engineers, but others are just fun.
- How many times do a clock’s hands overlap in a day?
- How would you weigh a plane without scales?
- Tell me 10 ways to use a pencil other than writing.
- How many people flew out of Chicago last year?
- Why is there fuzz on a tennis ball?
- With your eyes closed, tell me step-by-step how to tie my shoes.
- If you were an animal, which one would you want to be?
- If you could choose one superhero power, what would it be and why?
- If you could get rid of any one of the US states, which one would you get rid of and why?
- Sell me this pencil.
- What would you do if you were the one survivor in a plane crash?
- What’s your favorite 90s jam?
- If you woke up and had 2,000 unread emails and could only answer 300 of them how would you choose which ones to answer?
- Who would win in a fight between Spiderman and Batman?
- If you had a machine that produced $100 dollars for life what would you be willing to pay for it today?
- What did you have for breakfast?
- Describe the color yellow to somebody who’s blind.
- If you were asked to unload a 747 full of jelly beans, what would you do?
- What’s your favorite Disney Princess?
- Estimate how many piano tuners operate a business in (pick a city).
- How much do you charge to wash every window in Seattle?
- How many children are born every day?
- If you had a choice between two superpowers (being invisible or flying) which would you choose?
- Why are manholes round?
- What do you do if you are approached by an employee who is complaining about a colleague who has horrible body odor?
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