Re: Retarded interview question
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One is he wants to see how people react with a situation that they are not expecting. Two is that he wants to see what a person is like without a scripted answer to a question. And third, which he said is his biggest reason, is for pure entertainment.
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I ask a lot of unusual questions when I interview. I don't particularly care what the answer is. I am probing to better profile them. If I see something worth following up on in an answer I dig into it. I also ask increasingly hard to answer questions, sometimes technical, sometimes not, until I get them into an area where they can't answer. I want to see how they handle this by:
-seeing if they get frustrated, irritable, or stubborn under stress.
-walking them through the answer step by step and seeing if they listen.
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