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What's the point of "Trick questions" on an interview?
I don't see the point of those questions
For one thing.... after becoming an expert on interview, I could easily get out of 99% of trick questions.
So what's the point of trick questions?
To make people nervous?
To see who can BS their way out of a difficult situation?
To have fun seeing a grown man/woman freaking out?
Honest people are the ones that are gonna do worse with trick questions
and liars and people that BS their way out of trouble are the ones that are always gonna do best with trick questions.
Is that the people that they want to hire?
Just so the unscrupulous evil employer's can sit there with their "Hahah, I have a job and you don't, Beg for you're job, Beg for it!!" attitude
You gotta sit there and play Yoda Jedi Mind Trick games with employers these days just to obtain a job, put money on the table and feed you're family
Its SICKENING. These corrupted evil companies should be ashamed of themselves with the way they screw the prospective employees around. Of course, sociopaths have no remorse by definition so they won't
Not everything in the workplace is predictable and comfortable. It makes manager feel more comfortable when they can hire employees who will react thoughtfully and productively to unexpected setbacks and situations. Those "trick" questions are helpful for identifying those employees.
The problem with silly trick questions - how many pianos are there in New York, how many marbles with fit in a school bus, and so on - is often in how the employer approaches the problem.
If used strictly as an open-ended test to see how the would be employee would approach the problem, they can work fine. But if used as a method to make people jump through hopes to see if the get the "right" answer on the spot, they are pointless. Why? Because very few jobs operate that way in the real world. If something unexpected or odd comes up, which is supposedly the point of these questions, nobody goes off and pulls the answer out of their heads based on guesswork and hunches. Instead, they use real data, and the answer may take time to arrive. The question is if the would be employee is approaching the problem correctly. Using trick questions for anything else is, at best, pointless, and at worst, sadistic.
Oh, and yes, I suspect there is some level of smugness and sadism involved with these questions, at least in some cases. If Google - infamous for this stuff - has admitted that these trick questions amounted to nothing, there's really good reason for anyone else to be using them.
Not everything in the workplace is predictable and comfortable. It makes manager feel more comfortable when they can hire employees who will react thoughtfully and productively to unexpected setbacks and situations. Those "trick" questions are helpful for identifying those employees.
This. If you are able to think on your toes. But sometimes it is just to get inside her head to see how you think.
A job interview is one of the most unrelaxed places to be, and it's hard for many people to think on their toes under that type of stress. I've found the best performers in interviews are not necessarily the best employees. Sure, if you're looking for a salesperson, expect a gregarious silver-tongue. But if you want someone consciencious and with integrity, and dependability, as an interviewer I think you have to read between the lines and have good intuition. I'd honestly prefer someone who was caught off guard by a trick question. I believe those people are more sincere. I've had more luck interviewing people at the coffee machine or on their way to their car - when they don't even know it's an interview.
i think so the inteviewer can feel the self-satisfaction of asking intelligent cranial questions rather than the obvious: "why did you leave your previous employer".
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