What are the best interview questions?
Too many people are asking interview questions where the answers are too obvious.
Q. What would you do if you won a million dollars?
A. I would come to work the next day, I love being loyal to my boss.
What do you expect them to say. So, I decided that I prefer personality questions where there is no correct answer.
How much would you spend on a house, and why?
How do you fit a giraffe in a refrigerator?
What attributes do you look for in friends?
What traits do you find desirable in an enemy?
What trait upsets you most about clients?
You can learn a lot about a person’s personality by asking these questions. There are also infinite ways to answer these questions.
Unfortunately, what I have found is that the people who did worst at my interviews did the best work. The people who were the most polished at the interview, failed to deliver good service. Please keep in mind that I was interviewing companies with more than one person. I am speaking of the overall output of a company.
When you boil it down, what really matters is if a company can make it through two or three small test projects of varying difficulty and a few test estimates. That says more about them than whether they have good techniques for fitting a giraffe in a refrigerator…
“Here Shelly… just stick your neck through that hole and I’ll give you these nice leaves… yum!!!”
Tweets:
(1) The best interview questions are more conversational than technical. See our examples!
(2) The best interview questions are not what you would ever dream of.
(3) Those that did best at the interview were good talkers, but not good workers. Hmm.
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