{"id":159545,"date":"2017-02-22T12:22:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T10:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=159545"},"modified":"2017-02-22T21:11:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T19:11:14","slug":"the-20-toughest-interview-questions-asked-by-the-worlds-top-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/159545\/the-20-toughest-interview-questions-asked-by-the-worlds-top-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"The 20 toughest interview questions asked by the world&#8217;s top firms &#8211; can you answer them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glassdoor, a global recruitment company, has published a list of the toughest job interview questions, asked by some of the biggest companies in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The questions are based on interviews submitted by users between the January 2016 and January 2017.\u00a0The company then ranked them based on community feedback and offered up a list of the 20 questions that they thought were the toughest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWhat on your CV is the closest thing to a lie?\u201d<\/strong> asked by software company The Phoenix Partnership for a marketing communication role was crowned the toughest interview question of the year, according to the survey.<\/p>\n<p>It was followed by <strong>\u201cWhat I am thinking right now?\u201d<\/strong> asked for a regional director role at digital education company TES Global and <strong>\u201cHow would your enemy describe you?\u201d<\/strong> for a position on the advertising sales graduate scheme at publishing group Cond\u00e9 Nast.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the full list of the top 20 toughest questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u201cWhat on your CV is the closest thing to a lie?\u201d<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0<em>Marketing and Communications Employee, The Phoenix Partnership\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u201cWhat am I thinking right now?\u201d<\/strong> \u2013<em>\u00a0Regional Director, TES Global<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u201cHow would your enemy describe you?\u201d<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0<em>Advertising Sales Grad Scheme, Cond\u00e9 Nast<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<strong>\u201cIf you had a friend who was great for a job and an identical person who was just as good, but your friend earned you \u00a32,000 less, who would you give the job to?\u201d<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0<em>Associate Recruitment Consultant, Hays<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u201cWhat&#8217;s the most selfish thing you&#8217;ve ever done?\u201d<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0<em>Graduate Consultant, PageGroup<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u201cYou are stranded on the moon with a group of other astronauts and you need to travel 200 miles back to base, here is a list of 15 items salvaged from the wreckage of the spacecraft you were travelling in. List them in order of importance.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013<em>\u00a0Sales Employee, Turnstone Sales<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u201cIf your best friend was here what advice would he give you?\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Central Clearing Counterparty, American Express<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u201cDescribe your biggest weakness. Then describe another.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0<em>Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Palantir Technologies<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u201cHow do you cope with repetition?\u201d<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0<em>Product Specialist, Tesla Motors<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u201cHow would you describe cloud computing to a seven-year old?\u201d<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0<em>Graduate Scheme, Microsoft<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u201cThere are three people, each with different salaries, and they want to find the average of them without telling any of the other two their salary. How do they do it?\u201d<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0<em>Technical Delivery Graduate, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u201cWho is your hero, and why?\u201d<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0<em>Product Quality Employee, GE<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u201cWhat\u2019s your the biggest regret managing people so far?\u201d<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0<em>Area Dir<\/em><em>ector, Regus<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u201cWhat would you ask the CEO if you met him one day?\u201d<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0<em>Performance Analyst, British Airways<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u201cYou have 50 red and 50 blue objects.\u00a0Split these however you like between two containers to give the minimum\/maximum probability of drawing one of the colours.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0<em>Operations Analyst, Clearwater Analytics<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u201cWhat does social justice mean to you?\u201d<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0<em>Content Marketing Manager, ThoughtWorks<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u201cWhat is your coping mechanism when you have a bad day?\u201d<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0<em>Consultant, Switch Consulting<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u201cAre you a nice guy?\u201d<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0<em>Product Manager, Badoo<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u201cProvide an estimate for the number of goals in the premier league.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0<em>Management Accountant, VAX<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u201cTell me about your childhood.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0<em>Learning and Development Employee, Next<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/157319\/these-are-the-248-ivy-league-courses-you-can-take-for-free-online\/\" target=\"_blank\">These are the 248 Ivy League courses you can take for free online<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glassdoor, a global recruitment company, has published a list of the toughest job interview questions, asked by some of the world&#8217;s biggest and most prestigious companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[7186,26],"class_list":["post-159545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-glassdoor","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159545"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159753,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159545\/revisions\/159753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}