Seriously, what's with the stupid interview questions? (applying, jobs, companies)

[Erauso1592]

the planet question is ignorant. EARTH IS THE ONLY HABITABLE PLANET IN OUR SYSTEM. I would say Mars because they found traces of water on it, but there's no evidence that there's any living organisms or ever were any on Mars. "If you could live on another planet outside of Earth.." - he wanted you to think on your feet on the spot and come up with an answer using this imaginary hypothesis based on what you know about other planets in our system. If you were interviewing for a NASA job, I can see asking that. But otherwise, it has no context for the job you were interviewing for. Waste of time. I prefer even hypothetical questions but with a job related context.

[Erauso1592]

Some of these people have this "jump through ring of fire and walk on coals" type questioning that has no context to the actual job. Then you find out it's for a crap job working high turnover place so it's not worth it for you.There are better ways to test for abstract reasoning, logic and behavior-personality. This type of questioning tells me more about the company than anything else.

[Listener2307]

Originally Posted by UrbanCheetah

(A)....So I have been on a long job search for the past three months for marketing manager positions and have been interviewing like crazy!........... Here are some of the things I have been asked and my thoughts on them:

(B)....."They say it takes 1,000 hours of practice to become truly skilled in something. If you could pick three things with the snap of your fingers where you could have 1,000 hours of practice like nothing and be truly skilled, what would they be?"...............

(A)...... I don't understand. I thought with an unemployment rate of 5.2% there was a job waiting for just about everyone.
OK. That was snarky. But it wasn't directed at you.

(B)....I think with this question, I would go ahead and confess that I would really like to be as skilled at interviewing prospective employees as he is.
That would probably end the interview, but with idiot questions like that being asked, who cares?

BOL! Take care, there are idiots in charge out there.

[Erauso1592]

ok 3 things: winning $ at casinos, making $ on stocks, and winning bets on horses. With all this, I won't ever have to worry about working for ***holes like that interviewer - or interviews in general ever again.

[Serious Conversation]

1,3 may be unorthodox, but I don't feel they are necessarily bad. 2 and 4 are dumb, and 5 seems insulting.

[MSchemist80]

This is seriously how companies select employees and then they complain about their talent and inability to find it. I think these interviewers were lobotomized.

[sandsthetime]

Originally Posted by MSchemist80

This is seriously how companies select employees and then they complain about their talent and inability to find it. I think these interviewers were lobotomized.

It's all about thinking on your feet. If you don't know what planet you would want to move to, how on earth can you possibly be good at your job?

[MSchemist80]

I'd rather know what planet those interviewers are currently living on since it doesn't seem to be Earth.

[Erauso1592]

Originally Posted by MSchemist80

I'd rather know what planet those interviewers are currently living on since it doesn't seem to be Earth.

lol.This. But they waste soooo much time asking nonsensical questions, instead of asking intelligent ones that directly relate to the job. They're not NASA so who cares about planets??

[nostoneunturned]

I'm with urban cheetah, these questions are very strange. I wouldn't want to work for a company that asked me about anything except relavant experiences, education and skills. They should be able to discern personality.