- Who would win in a fight: Captain Crunch or Wile E. Coyote?
- What rhymes with the word “purple?” (No, “nurple” doesn’t count.)
- Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
There are a lot of bad job interview questions – many worse than the ones we’ve included above. (O.K., maybe not.) But what about the best job interview questions. In “Sway,” a great new book that examines why smart people do stupid things, researchers break down the 10 most common interview questions. And they come to a baffling conclusion: Only one of the 10 questions is good. And heck, that one question is only decent at best.
The 10 most popular job interview questions include the ones you’ve probably been asked a dozen times: Why do you want to work here? Where do you see yourself in five years? What’s your dream job? According to the “Sway” scribes, these are all bogus questions because the answers can be completely stripped of any honesty. Sure, faking sincerity is sometimes hard, but you can still easily “lie” about these answers without getting caught.
So what was the best question of the lot? “What do you know about our company?” It’s stupid how simple a question it is, but it’s also a question that doesn’t allow those in the hot seat to fib and impress at the same time. If you haven’t done even minimal research about a company, then you can’t fake it. And by the way, if you haven’t, then shame on you.
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