Employers can get creative with questions they ask job seekers to see if the potential hire's skills and personality will fit within the company. According to Glassdoor, here are 10 tough questions candidates have been asked. How would you answer?A global data analyst from Bloomberg L.P. reported, "How do you explain a vending machine to someone who hasn't seen or used one before?""How many fire hydrants are there in Los Angeles County?" A software engineer from Disney Interactive said.A district manager for Express reported, "If your current employer had an anniversary party for you, what five words would be written on the cake to describe you?"A flight attendant for PSA Airlines reported, "Who in history would you want to go to dinner with and why?"A test operations engineer with SpaceX said, "Prove that hoop stress is twice the longitudinal stress in a cylindrical pressure vessel."An OpticsPlanet team leader was asked, "What's the capital of Canada?""Name a brand that represents you as a person," a Twitter brand stategist reported.A data scientist for Risk Management Solutions responded, "Estimate how many employees are in the next building.""How many happy birthday posts do you think Facebook gets in one day?" Said a respondent from sales operations for Facebook.An educator for Lululemon reported, "If you could take anyone on a road trip with you, who would you take and why?"
Employers can get creative with questions they ask job seekers to see if the potential hire's skills and personality will fit within the company. According to Glassdoor, here are 10 tough questions candidates have been asked. How would you answer?
