20 Craziest Job Interview Questions and the Right Answers

MoneyWatch ^ | May 30, 2011 | Lynn O'Shaughnessy

[Slings and Arrows]

Nobody has to tell you that it’s a rough job market. So when you do finagle a job interview, you’ll want to shine.

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Procter & Gamble: Sell me an invisible pen.

Facebook: Twenty five racehorses, no stopwatch, five tracks. Figure out the top three fastest horses in the fewest number of races.

Citigroup: What is your strategy at table tennis?

Google: You are climbing a staircase. Each time you can either take one step or two. The staircase has n steps. In how many distinct ways can you climb the staircase?

Capital One: How do you evaluate Subway’s five-foot long sub policy?

Gryphon Scientific: How many cocktail umbrellas are there in a given time in the United States?

Enterprise Rent-A-Car: Would you be okay hearing “no” from seven out of 10 customers.

Goldman Sachs: Suppose you had eight identical balls. One of them is slightly heavier and you are given a balance scale. What’s the fewest number of times you have to use the scale to find the heavier ball?

Towers Watson: Estimate how many planes are there in the sky.

Lubin Lawrence: If you could describe Hershey, Godiva and Dove chocolate as people, how would you describe them?

Pottery Barn: If I was a genie and could give you your dream job, what and where would it be?

Kiewit Corp.: What did you play with as a child?

VWR International: How would you market a telescope in 1750 when no one knows about orbits, moons etc.

Diageo North America: If you walk into a liquor store to count the unsold bottles, but the clerk is screaming at you to leave, what do you do?

Brown & Brown Insurance: How would you rate your life on a scale of 1 to 10?

[ThomasThomas]

Are they incandescent or cfl?

[BitWielder1]

What is the smallest number divisible by 225 that consists of all 1’s and 0’s?

My answer is 11111111100 (decimal).
Why?
225 = 9 * 25. If you add all the digits of a decimal number and the sum is a multiple of 9, then the original number is also a multiple of .
That means the number must have at least nine 1's in it.
It must also be a multiple of 25.
100 is the smallest multiple of 25 that does not ruin the sequence of 1's, hence 11111111100.

[SeaHawkFan]

You are correct. I also misread the question.

[Ronin]

Nope, once. It’s a balance scale, so assuming the heavier ball is on one side the first time around, that pan will be lower. If two identical weight balls are used the first time, you have to try at least one more to find the heavier ball.

[mad_as_he$$]

lol..sure fire method!