I don't want to get stale in my interviewing skills--what are some of the hardest or craziest questions you've been asked when interviewing for a new company?

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Teach me how to do something in 60 seconds

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Where do you not want to work? What would your CD say about you?

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And 30 seconds later I taught you how to touch your tongue to the tip of your nose

What makes you different than the 10 other people interviewed?

Was hard for me because I thought, how do I know who you interviewed? Which is kind of what I said, but then folllowed up to explain how I typically set myself apart... I'm sure there's a more clever way to answer, though.

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Is this is appropriate value to ask for? or I can ack for more amount??

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Hi Fishes,

Have interview with UBS in Tech Software Engineer in Test role what can we expect my stack is CoreJava,Selenium,API testing.

Exp-8 years.

Thanks in Advance !

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