What Is The Weirdest Question You Have Been Ever Asked At A Job Interview?

-> my mother after discovering i had dropped out of university.

my reply:

"uh working in the shop?"

Normally we ask a nasty last question - 'how would your friends describe you?' You would think that people would be wary when answering it, but maybe, because they know it's the last question, they've already started relaxing and don't think things through carefully.

I didn't get the job. Fuckers.

I got the job though.

At the interview I think I just looked confused. the important thing was that I didn't say no.

The photo thing isn't so weird if you go through an agency - however, it's better if they do it themselves if they want it - I have had my photo taken a couple of times by agencies, just so they can remember which one I was. Not a good sign. One photo place got me a job, the other didn't. So you never know.

I got asked "how would your colleagues describe you if they talked about you behind your back?" I laughed and said no one talks behind my back, they say everything to my face at my job. I said people told me I was "an unconventional genius" which was definitely a nice way of saying "you're WEIRD, but you get the job done."

We shall see what I get asked tomorrow. It's an ad agency so I imagine they'll go with the zaniness.

Funny, I don't usually have this kind of reaction to a job interview, but I've had such sucky interviews lately. It's a beautiful office - seriously lovely, on the Thames - with design porn lying all over the place coz it's an ad agency, nice guys who interviewed me who I'd be working with, doing both database management *and* data analysis and even a bit of web stuff (they asked "what do you know about putting databases on the web?" me: "Oooohh..." ::rubs hands together).

And they didn't ask any dumb questions. In fact, the weirdest question they asked was "what did you think we'd ask you that we didn't?" and I just said "THANK YOU SO MUCH for not asking me what my three strengths and weaknesses are."

Sorry I'm a bit hyper. Too much cappucino at the company cafe. Mmmmmmmmm.

later in the interview we discussed mongolian barbecue and the velvet underground. i got into the school (didn't end up going though).

It actually kind of bothers me to reveal my star sign to people who know what star signs mean simply because it has a lot of negative aspects to it. Reading descriptions suggests people with my star sign are selfish, insufferable, stubborn tyrants.

er... a propos of nothing. Good luck on the job, K!

That came up in my last interview - well, my degree is in archaeology, but otherwise it was the same. My answer: "because if you're a field archaeologist you have to spend your life travelling round the country and kneeling at the bottom of muddy holes, and by the time you reach 40 your knees have stopped working."

Good morning!