What are some job interview questions you've been asked?

[AbsoluteParadigm]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
At 3:15, the hour hand is pointing to the 3 and the minute hand is also pointing to the 3...

0 degrees...

Don't over think this one, people....

A clock only points at 3 exactly when it's 3:00. When the minute hand passes the 00 mark of the minutes, the hour hand is not on 3:00 exactly anymore. Thus it is not 0 degrees.

 

[Shooters]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
At 3:15, the hour hand is pointing to the 3 and the minute hand is also pointing to the 3...

0 degrees...

Don't over think this one, people....

Set your clock to 3:15 and tell me what you see.

 

[FuZoR]

Do you have a crimminal record....

 

[Ocuflox]

would u look at an answer sheet to a test if you could

 

[H34D0N]

Have you ever had a dispute with the law Jail time etc

 

[geckojohn]

A good question they always ask is, "Have you ever had a hurdle that you've had to cross where you haven't been able to make it?" and have you learned from it?

 

[Grouchyoldguy]

If the facility (read toilet) in wing B is out of paper and there is none in the supply closet what would you do? <interview for building maintenance many years ago>

 

[MistaTastyCakes]

At my last job interview, the guy asked me a couple questions and then told me a bunch of retarded, old, and boring stories about his former job pumping oil or something. I got the job, and I think a lot of the reason I did was the fact that I stayed awake. So, get lots of rest, you never know when you're gonna be stuck listening to an hour's worth of senile old coot stories.

 

[Ameesh]

write a macro that finds the byte alignment of the machine it is running on.

write a scheduler that optimizes transactions queued up in a database

eplain deadlock and livelock

etc. etc.

 

[Ameesh]

the hardest question ive heard of in an interview that i can think of right now was write a function that takes an 2 arrays of ints and N where the first array is the tree represented in pre order, the second in post order and N is the number of potential children of a node.

 

[milagro]

Describe a difficult problem you faced and the steps you took to solve it..

 

[SuepaFly]

Are you familiar with our company?

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: Shooters

Originally posted by: Mwilding
At 3:15, the hour hand is pointing to the 3 and the minute hand is also pointing to the 3...

0 degrees...

Don't over think this one, people....

Set your clock to 3:15 and tell me what you see.

22.5 deg

 

[MacBaine]

Originally posted by: Shooters

Originally posted by: Mwilding
At 3:15, the hour hand is pointing to the 3 and the minute hand is also pointing to the 3...

0 degrees...

Don't over think this one, people....

Set your clock to 3:15 and tell me what you see.

Shot down!

 

[GasX]

I see a hand on the 3 and a hand on the 3...

 

[JetBlack69]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
I see a hand on the 3 and a hand on the 3...

Your clock sucks, set it at 3:30. Is the hour hand still pointing at 3 or is it half way between 3 and 4?

 

[sandmanwake]

Here's another one: Would you have any problem with going into a nuclear core during a melt down to prevent the melt down?

My answer: No, I don't mind. Afterall, we've all got to die sometimes.

No, I did not get the job. The interview guys looked at me and then looked at each other and I knew I had screwed up.

 

[Vette73]

Originally posted by: JetBlack69

Originally posted by: Mwilding
I see a hand on the 3 and a hand on the 3...

Your clock sucks, set it at 3:30. Is the hour hand still pointing at 3 or is it half way between 3 and 4?

Some clocks move the hour hand in swift single strockes. Mostly old clocks but some do it. It will sit on three until the min hand hits the top then the hour hand will just pop to the 4.

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: sandmanwake
So I was thinking that maybe if some people contribute some questions that are asked during job interviews, it'd help those of us who aren't good at interviews prepare better.

I'll list some I've been asked:
Name three reasons why manhole covers are mainly round.
What achievement are you most proud of?
Do you think your GPA reflect your abilities accurately?

THREE reasons manhole covers are round? Obviously the interviewer is a complete moron because there's only one reason. Circular covers are the only shape where the lid can't get put down inside the hole....

And if he says beacue they can be rolled away, that's just what you get by making it not fall in. They didn't design it so it could roll. Most people drag them anyway...

 

[sandmanwake]

I believe the question about the manhole cover is one of those along the lines of what you would do if you were given an elephant or how would you move Mt. Fuji. The interviewer would like to see your thinking process or how well you can BS.

I said that there's no sharp edges, so workers are less likely to cut themselves and tradition. I couldn't really come up with anything really credible for the third reason, so I made something up--less likely to fall in the hole or some such thing, I can't remember.