Top weird questions asked in tech company interviews
1. A man pushed his car to a hotel and lost his fortune. What happened?
This one has a much simpler answer: He was playing Monopoly.
2.If you had a choice between two superpowers - being invisible or flying - which would you choose?
Microsoft asked this question in an interview for a high level product lead position. It's unlikely that it is intended as a trick question, given that a successful interviewee answered, "That's easy I would choose being invisible since then I could fly." A skeptical person on Glass Door said, "Invisible = you have a fear of something or you are shy. Flying = you don't have a fear of being on stage (good leaders)."
3.What would you do if you were the one survivor in a plane crash?
Airbnb asks this question of people applying to be trust and safety investigators. The most popular answer on Glass Door is "Be glad that I was flying solo that day". One of the least popular was "I would turn on my cellphone and call you to say that I'll be late for work".
4.You’re in a row boat, which is in a large tank filled with water. You have an anchor on board, which you throw overboard (the chain is long enough so the anchor rests completely on the bottom of the tank). Does the water level in the tank rise or fall?
The answer to this common sense question from Tesla in an interview for a mechanical engineer position is "the water levels fall". The anchor is more dense than water, so its displacement as mass, when it is on the boat, is greater than its displacement as volume, when its in the water. So if you throw it overboard the water level will fall.
5:Facebook: "How much do you charge to wash every window in Seattle?"
I don't know what to answer for this.
Airbnb asks this question of people applying to be trust and safety investigators. The most popular answer on Glass Door is "Be glad that I was flying solo that day". One of the least popular was "I would turn on my cellphone and call you to say that I'll be late for work".
4.You’re in a row boat, which is in a large tank filled with water. You have an anchor on board, which you throw overboard (the chain is long enough so the anchor rests completely on the bottom of the tank). Does the water level in the tank rise or fall?
The answer to this common sense question from Tesla in an interview for a mechanical engineer position is "the water levels fall". The anchor is more dense than water, so its displacement as mass, when it is on the boat, is greater than its displacement as volume, when its in the water. So if you throw it overboard the water level will fall.
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