Worst interview question you’ve ever gotten?

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This has been a really helpful thread to source interview questions, thank you.

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I'm a student at Boston University, and I'm the kind of person to be always making puns and jokes whenever I see the opening. A common pun at BU, and one I made all of my freshman year, was emphasizing "be you" in any sentence as "BU".

At the end of my freshman year, I had an interview with an EY Advisory Partner. I had just finished a great interview and rotated into this room next. Instead of "tell me about yourself?", the first question he asked me was "So, what's it like to be you?" I didn't know if he was asking "what's it like to be you?" Or "what'd it like to BU?" And was so thrown off by the question. I pretty much had the worst interview I've had to date. Haven't made that pun since 😭😭😂😂😂

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Hahahaha this is hilarious. You just need the interviewer to be a bu alumn and they’ll appreciate the pun. Accenture Boston has plenty of bu alums— considering interviewing there!

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If you were an item in a fridge what would you be? I weirdly said salami sandwich. Also, if you are wondering, I didn’t get the job.

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I would have hired you on the spot

"what's the worst thing you've ever done and gotten away with?"

killed my last interviewer for asking stupid questions...

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“Your GPA is low. Do you think it’s low?”

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SAME. They asked me why I got a C in Accounting my Fall semester of my sophomore year... because I don’t want to be an Accountant??

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What's your spirit animal?

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“Recite how you would aggregate a number in a for loop and have it increase by double the amount each time and stop at 100”

This was a phone screen for a Management Consultant role....

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OW1: It is indeed! There are two kinds of people, those who don’t understand it, and those who have had to optimize their horribly inefficient code 🤓

“What dog would you compare yourself with?” I immediately said I don’t think I am a fit here and ended the interview and walked out.

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Should have said The Bounty Hunter

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"Which is the most important finger?" Now that I think about it, was I being sexually harassed?

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Ive heard this before asked to different ppl and each person gave interesting answers (I was second interviewer lol)

“did you study economics because you failed out of engineering/computer science? usually that’s the case.”

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Oof

"What's your walkup song? What did you last cook for breakfast?"

Questions from Deloitte

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“You enter the all hands meeting, and everyone is here, knowing that you will need to cut costs. You know that to achieve what management wants, you will need to cut 30%. As you walk to your slide deck, what is your walk up song?” I would’ve been hard pressed not to answer “The Imperial March”
with a straight face..

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“If the world was connected by one strip of land how long would it take you to go end to end without stopping and what would you need?”

This was many years ago for an analyst position and I’ll never forget it. I’ll admit it frazzled me and I probably sounded dumb answering it. Thankfully he saw something more. He ended up being one of my favorite bosses

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“Beer or wine?”

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Went to an interview for a Supply Chain role and was given a marketing case interview. I was less than impressed

I solved ot at college level, so when they called me back I told them they had no idea what they were hiring for, not interested.

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“Tell me a joke”

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If I wanted to be a stand up comedian, I wouldn’t have applied to be a Management Consultant, Steve

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“If you could be any superhero which one would you be and why?”

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Yeah like what am I supposed to say “teleporting” ok and?? What does that have to do with ppt decks

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“What’s your favorite type of graph” 🥴

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D5: With a log scale..

“What’s your favorite pizza topping?”

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"How many windows were open in the entire world at 3pm ET yesterday?"

-.-

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FYI This type of question is pretty common in some product management interview. Obviously they are not looking for the “right” answer; they just want to see how you think.

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Define strategy ::proceeds to stare like a deer in headlights::

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