Most ridiculous or strangest questions you've been asked in an interview?

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"Do you spell your name with two n's or one? I wasn't sure if you were misspelling it on everything."

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Which Harry Potter house I would belong to and why

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How many social media accounts do you have and how often do you check them..

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This one is really funny to me

“How do you feel about guns in the office” and “are we going to find you crying under your desk because court scared you?” 😑😑😑

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Oh another one but it was more of a question during an informational interview - ‘oh your husband is a venture capitalist in Boston earning well, why not become a probono attorney or something’

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If you were a fruit, what fruit would you be and why?

Idk why people think this is silly. I personally would be an apricot. If you know me in person you’d immediately know why, and it says a lot about my skills as a lawyer.

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I was once asked to describe a time I had been dishonest. And then when I said nothing was immediately coming to mind...I got “so you’ve been 100% honest every day of your life??”

Who is your favorite actor / actress and what is your favorite movie of theirs.

As a 3L (female) interviewing with a state court judge (male) for a clerkship: What does your father do for a living? He died when I was young. Oh, does your mother work outside of the home?

Later in the interview: Are you married? No. Why isn’t a pretty thing like you married yet?

This gives me the creeps.

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“Why do you want to be a lawyer if you want to have a family?” (I’m a female.)

Horrible! How did you answer?

This happened in a foreign country when I just started my legal career- ‘do you intend on get married soon and thinking to start a family soon).

I don’t remember how she worded the question exactly, but she explained they don’t typically hire young associates and then asked me to compare myself to their current associate who I had never met before... (also a young person I presume??)

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