Best and worst interview questions you’ve ever been asked

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Best: can you start next week?

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Worst: what did you get on your SATs? I was 23 and a college graduate.

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Worst: interviewer tried to ask me what my anthem song was, but instead of just asking he referenced the song No Scrubs by TLC, which I had heard of but that I didn’t know. He couldn’t get YouTube to work properly on his computer when he tried to being up the song, so we left his office and he brought it up on someone else’s computer. In the middle of the interview. 🤦🏼‍♀️ I still didn’t recognize the song and so he had to describe what it was about and how it was like an anthem and anyhow did I have an anthem song. After all of that I can’t even remember what I answered 🤣

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Who was the scrub is what I want to know. Guy sounds like a major goob.

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What are you reading right now? Best bec it led to an open convo about books and reading and general interests outside “show me your portfolio”

Allowed me to learn about my potential boss and them about me

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I love this question but I’m always reading at least one book so this would be fun for me. This isn’t so intimidating and in your face like some of these other questions.

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“What’s your favorite vertical?”
— Laundry Service

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Who was you r favorite teletubbie

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Best question: so when can you start?
Worst question: where do you see yourself 5 years from now?

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Interesting. Why do you think the 5 years from now is so bad?

interviewing for a CD role:
“When do you finish school?”

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Wtf 😂

What’s your superpower?

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I wish I was a copywriter so I could answer all interview questions so smoothly

"Give me three adjectives you would use to describe yourself"

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The worst. Nobody does that. Nearly everyone says words bereft of differentiating meaning.

You are driving through the desert and come to a stop sign. What do you do?

Best in the sense of ‘no one else ever asked me that’

Worst because it just felt like a planner trying to use some projective technique on me.

This is like the test they give to find out if you’re a replicant.

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