Have to wonder what it would do to an applicants chances if he were to say his favorite animal was a gerbil...
My father was an HR exec, his job was recruiting salesmen. He did mostly college recruiting. He went to a college, interviewed about 50 or 60 young fellows, and picked out the one or two who would make a good salesman.
This job is an art, something you can’t really learn without a lot of experience and having the knack for it. He was very highly paid because he was quite good at picking the right ones.
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Blender question: walk to the stem take off my belt wrap it around the stem and my wrists place feet on inside of blender ‘chops’ and enjoy the ride.
Superhero: DC Earth X composite superman
Color: blue
Animal: duck-billed platypus
And those have been my answers for some time now.
Oh and I like peanut butter and whipped cream sandwiches.
I interviewed at Microsoft once. 6 hours of mostly odd questions - not as crazy as this article recounts, but still “out of the box” questions that require a deep understanding of what that box is.
While waiting my turn in the main recruiting building, I observed a guy come in and do the old (and now it is indeed becoming old) job-search tactic of showing up cold and insisting on giving his resume to someone in-person. Asked whether he had submitted online - and why he hadn’t - he became agitated because he had flown from Ottawa to Seattle (an expensive 6 hour flight one way) to follow the deprecated rule of thumb, only to be told in so many words that was a stupid thing to do. I still wonder if that was real, or a planned stunt to observe how candidates responded.
As too the blender question...I would remove my corporate jet from my wallet and fly out.
Blender: Run around the inside perimeter of the blender, using the generated force to allow you to slowly spiral your way up and out of the blender.
It "may be", but it is not. Somewhere in "the so-called laws of physics" is the matter of compressing a liquid, which is basically what the human body is.
It is more correct to say that it comes at a time when HR departments are looking for any reason whatsoever to pick qualified Candidate A over equally qualified Candidate B.
Asinine. No wonder a lot of large companies are so screwed up.
My husband had already been hired on one particular job a couple of jobs back, but soon he got after the job, the owner of the company and a few employees took him out to dinner. The owner asked my husband, “So tell us something about yourself we don’t know.” My husband responded, “Well, I like to wear lederhosen and pumps.” I think he’d fit right in at Google.
The answer to the blender question is quite simple. You are shrunken to a size less then the height of a nickel. This puts you well below the blades. So when the blades start moving, just lie flat on the bottom and ride it out.