What’s the weirdest interview question you’ve gotten? Did you reuse it to cause chaos in future interviews?

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Mine was “What is your spirit animal and why?”
I was so thrown because every question before that was technical
I now pepper it in every once in a while just to see the reaction

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I once had someone ask me if I had any nerdy hobbies. At the time I'd been on a genealogy kick, so I told him how I'd been able to locate my ancestors in the 1901 census of Ireland. I didn't get the job, but it was at least a fun digression in a job interview.

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