I spent a few hours Sunday afternoon interviewing students for positions in the Minerva House program, a student life initiative that I’m involved with. The interviews were don by a panel– me and four students– and we tried to mix in a few oddball interview questions with the serious stuff.
The most successful of these was “What are five things you can do with a straw?” One of the students kept trying to ask “If you could be any Pokemon, which would you be, and why?” but we’re apparently not drawing from a nerdy enough pool of students, because most of them couldn’t think of anything.
I thought I’d throw this out there to my readers, though, because I’m sure some of you know a lot more about oddball intwerview questions than I do. So:
What is the best interview question you know of? The worst?
These could be questions you were asked, questions you have asked job candidates, or really weird questions you’d like to ask a job candidate, but nobody is foolish enough to give you the power to ask. Leave your favorite, or least favorite, in the comments. If I like any of them enough to steal for future use, I’ll make up some sort of prize to give you.