Creative Interview Questions

I generally focused my answers on the success of the team and company at large. Centered on the idea that putting employees, even difficult ones, in situations where they were set up to succeed, vs fail, was key. If there were still issues, then I was very matter-of-fact with my own philosophy of not hiring a-holes, and that sometimes the talent did not justify the personality.

I froze up at this question. My friend later told me I should have asked something like: Is this a NBA-sized basketball?

A basketball is a hollow sphere. Say the radius of the basketball is e.g. 5 inches (I think it's actually 4.5 inches but the 5 will make calculations easier). V = 4/3 pi r^3 = 4/3 * pi *125 = 500/3 * pi So approximately 500 cubic inches (let pi = 3, then the 3 cancels out). Now consider a jelly bean. Assume the jelly bean is cylindrical. It has a radius of say 0.5 inches and height of 1 inch. V = 1 * pi * .25^2 V = 1/16 * pi Approximately 1/4. Then number of jellbeans = Volume Sphere / Volume Cylinder = 500 / (1/4) = 500 * 4 = 2000.

Again.. no job experience. Hard to answer.

If you can't think of an example from a past job experience, think of a time you went above and beyond for a friend or family member- at the least you can show that you are a caring person and will go above and beyond for the people around you!

Wow. You are so very very great.

This is so true. He is so pompous.

Micromanagement. This answer may have killed my hiring chances, since the person who asked this question (I later found out) is the "Queen of Micromanagement".

I don’t find any management style difficult. What I find difficult is lack of consistency in defining work tasks and requests and inconsistency in reactions on work performance and results.

patience, knowledge, intuitiveness

The ability to read the student and relate the lesson in a way he/she can understand. Understanding is the key to learning.

This is an amateur question to ask.

In seeing beyond what I'm looking at. In listening more deeply to what I am hearing.