Interview Questions?! The Weirder, the Better.
To celebrate the movie The Internship — and of course, tech careers — we’re asking you to submit your interview questions – challenging, weird, funny, we want to hear them. We’ll be hosting a Google Hangout on Nov. 4 with a recruiter, a startup expert, and a Dice career expert who will talk through some of the best submissions. 10 randomly selected winners will receive an Internship Blu-ray Combo Pack and a $50 Amazon gift card.
Here’s how to enter:
- Think of a challenging, weird or funny interview question.
- Enter the interview question in the comments section of this post before 11:59 on Nov. 3.
- Be sure to use your real name and email so we can contact you if you’re chosen.
- Read other comments.
- Laugh.
- Repeat 4-6.
- Mark your calendar for 12:30 PM ET/9:30 AM PT Nov. 4 to watch the Hangout.
Yes, in case you were wondering: This contest is subject to certain terms and conditions. Please read about them here.
How many walkers have you killed?
How many humans have you killed?
Why?
Rick’s interview to be a member of the jail in The Walking Dead
My interview question, have u ever dated a co-worker? or done illegal things at work?
Would you rather be a worker bee, drone bee, or queen bee?
Would you prefer eating cotton balls or eating dirt?
I would like to know, have you ever farted loudly while standing next to your boss????
Scenario – We’ve decided to hire you. Who is the first person you notify, how do you notify them, and why did you choose this person?
Where was Bugs Bunny born?
Who is your worst enemy ? Why ?
When is the last time you got a roll of film developed ? haha
What is a TLA?
What is the most enbarassing thing on your facebook page right now
Do you a bumper sticker on your vehicle and if so…what does it say?
Have you ever worn a thong? If so, what color was it?
What do you do best….delegate, communicate, or regurgitate?
Have you ever dressed in “drag”?
If you were a fish, what kind would you be? What would be your fish family surname?
How long were you at your last job?
I don’t know what I would ask
What would you do for a Klondike Bar?
Do you think dating is only for the young–those under 70 years of age?
What did you dress up for Halloween, the last time you dressed up?
Will you hold the mike for me
What interesting props have you borrowed permanently (stolen)?
Do you want to buy one of the puppies I have for sale?
Do you ever turn your underwear inside out so that you can wear them two days?
When do you best like to….pick your boogers in your nose?
How fast can you text?
So tell me, what kind of food would you be cooking in the company lunch area? We have a no smell allowed rule!
This series of questions – from the same interviewer:
-Do you own your own home?
-How do you, an unemployed guy half my age, own your own home, when I do not?
(Within days of Honorable Discharge out of 4 years Active Duty Army, including deployment to Iraq during 9/11…)
–Do you have any references NOT in the military?
-How do I know you’re not a child molester?
I firmly believe it should be a legal requirement for all interviews to be recorded….
While interviewing for a network technician job I was asked “how many golf balls can fit in a school bus?” I asked a few about the size of the bus and started to do the math on a napkin. He stopped me and said that there is no truly correct answer. He just wanted to see how I went about figuring it out. I got the job.
Why are man-hole covers round?
If you were to be a tree, what type of tree would you be?
My answer was: A Weeping Willow because they are graceful, bend but do not break, and go with the flow (move with the breeze).
If a chicken and a half laid an egg and a half in a day and a half, how long before you have a dozen eggs?
What is your natural haircolor?
What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done in your life?
Interview Question – What is the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to you?
My Answer – Well I am not sure if it the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to ME, but just recently the person interviewing me fell asleep during the interview.
what are your most dirty disqusting habits, and would you bring them to work w you.and would u be looking at porn on the office computer. you perve, your so not hired.
Why should I believe you when you admit that you can lie?
So, what do you look like when you’re not all dressed up for an interview?
Have you ever quit a job so you could date a co worker?
Do you dye your hair and if so, why?
How many Amish drive-by shootings happen each year?
Which State has the most of them?
How can I renounce my American citizenship, so that I can be eligible for a job
under the Amnesty plan?
Do you have s GAY sexual experience?
How would you describe your most recent illness and
how many “sick” days do you intend to take during the coming year?
if you were a superhero what would your super power be and why?
Do you like Obamacare?
Guy asked me who was my favorite super hero?
What was the most fun movie you made?
How would you explain facebook to your grandmother?
Have you ever played a banana or ate a banana
While you are surfing porn on our companies website, do you tend to:
a) flick you boogers onto the carpet
b) wipe them on the underside of your desk
c) ignore them once they blend into the keyboard or
d) I would never pick my nose while watching porn on company time unless there were tissues available
e) all of the above
What is your favorite alcoholic drink?
What is the first change you would make in the break room?
What question were you hoping we would not ask?
If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
Have you ever smoked marijuana?
(applying for work as an order-filler at a pharmacy supply distribution center.)
I answered yes and was hired on the spot.
2nd weirdest question – Would you be willing to get a haircut if I gave you $20?
I answered yes and started the next day building skylights and windows.
If you had to immediately evacuate your office due to a disater that might completely destroy it, what is the first thing you would grab as you were running out the door?
Do you still sleep with your teddy bear?
Please tell me a joke.
Do you get a lot of spaghetti stains in your underware?
Why do you think Santa Claus does not have any children?
Why would a mortuary remove the internal organs of a person and stuff them with newspapers without the family knowing ?
Do you believe in the Devil?
If you had a superpower, what would it be, and why?
at another interview…
What super power do you bring to the team?
(I later decided my super power was sleep, but that didn’t seem like a good answer)
Are you a Christian ?? And if so, have you excepted Christ as your savior??
If you are home alone, do you close the bathroom door or leave it open?
Do you have any weird, extra appendages growing anywhere on your body?
So, who wins in a fight, Batman or Spiderman? Why? This is an actual question on my standard interview. The responses reveal a lot about the candidate.
Is the glass half empty, or half full?
If you were a color, what would it be?
If you were to get rid of one state in the US, which would it be and why?
Have you ever seen a UFO? Do you believe that E.T.’s exist?
How often do you answer a question with a Question?
As a Rockstar of the Company – how would you decorate your office?
How tough can it be?
If you and I were the only survivors of a boat wreck on a deserted island and we ran out of food, would you eat me?
How would you coach a football game?
(man interviewing another man)
If both of us were standing next to each other in a restroom urinal, would you greet me then or wait until we were washing our hands?
Follow-up: If we both washed our hands, greeted, and shook hands, would you then wash your hands again?
I have 5,000 people applying for the same job as you. Why should I hire you instead of one of the other 4,999 applicants?
Do you own a gun?
If I don’t hire you, would you want to use your gun (or buy one and use it, if you don’t currently own one) in some capacity that would involve me?
Have you ever spent time in a Turkish prison?
If you could be married to anyone in the world, who would it be and why?
I saw a picture of the interviewer’s wife on his desk and I answered: “Your wife, because she’s hot.”
If I provided you the instructions, materials, equipment, facility, and required personnel to build a weapon of mass destruction, would you build it?
If I asked you to do something illegal for the good of this company, would you do it?
Summarize your career thus far into a book title.
Where did you bury the survivors (of the plane crash)!
Do you believe in life beyond the planet Earth? Why?
What do you do when no one is watching?
Are there any movies downloaded (legally or illegally) on your computer which star either Vince Vaughn or Owen Wilson?
At pot luck dinners what dish do you usually bring and do people like it?
Boxers or briefs?
Do you watch the Walking Dead and if so what do you think of it?
While acting a comedy film, what were the longest number of takes it took to complete a scene due to not being able to quit laughing?
Why did you dress that way, knowing that you were coming in for a job interview?
COULD YOU HANDLE BEING A BARTENDER/WAITER?
What was the most outrageous thing you did to get a job.
If you were a fungus which toe would you grow on?
What was Woody Allen’s involvement in this movie?
If you could intern for any person, dead or alive, who would it be and why?
If you were a piece of cheese, would you eat yourself? I know I would, I would be delicious!!!
If you were a glass of water with equal amounts water and air, would you be half-empty or half-full?
What is the last thing you did that may be considered ‘illegal’?
Where was the wildest place you have ever done the “wild thing”?
What is the sneakiest, most underhanded thing you have ever done?
What’s the best excuse you’ve ever used to take a sick day when you were not sick?
If you could pick anyone to be your roommate, who would it be any why?
Who won?
Where is the list of winners?