Best and worst interview questions

[Dactylion]

Erm, that is a question?

Erm, is that a question?

[northernladuk]

Probably best and worst in same one depending on if they seriously wanted an answer or it is just a closing light hearted question.

'So do you think you can do the role?'

So many sarcastic answers available to that sprang to mind ranging from 'No I just like wasting my time here' to 'No but I will make it bloody good job of looking like I can.'

A polite 'Of course' was the best I could manage. Such a waste of an answer.

[Dactylion]

Probably best and worst in same one depending on if they seriously wanted an answer or it is just a closing light hearted question.

'So do you think you can do the role?'

So many sarcastic answers available to that sprang to mind ranging from 'No I just like wasting my time here' to 'No but I will make it bloody good job of looking like I can.'

A polite 'Of course' was the best I could manage. Such a waste of an answer.

You know what that being your best is no surprise at all!

Funny how you can be full of it when attacking newbies on here but face to face you just nod and say "Yes Sir!! No Sir! Let me bend over for you Sir!"

[ELBBUBKUNPS]

Best :

Bend me over, pull my skirt up and roger me hard.


Worst :

Get on your knees boy and see if you can make my python spit.

[northernladuk]

You know what that being your best is no surprise at all!

Funny how you can be full of it when attacking newbies on here but face to face you just nod and say "Yes Sir!! No Sir! Let me bend over for you Sir!"

LOL, 2/10 Please try harder.

[Spacecadet]

Worst: Can you explain why you're 45 minutes late?

I think they went off script for that one

[SueEllen]

Best: Can you start on the [insert date of Monday coming]?

Worst: We don't have any other women in this department you known. Is that a problem?

Funny thing is in both situations the clients (plural) concerned never have any women but some seem to think they are so ******* special.

[No2politics]

Best interview:
You've been here before so we can't be bothered with an interview can you start on....

Worst interview:
Being asked how would you feel about going permanent at the flipping interview

This. Especially when they start trying to convince you they have a great culture. "Only the other day the <insert impressive title> came round and talked to all of the team members". Sounds great but ill stay contracting thanks.

Also "where do u see yourself in 5 years time"

Still doing this mate

[doodab]

Best is probably "how would X (former colleague who submitted my CV) describe you?"

Worst is probably an agency spelling test I sat as a student where the girl couldn't spell business and marked my correct answer as wrong

[bless 'em all]

I think like doodab's tree question, this is to weed out fakes. People working as 'testers' somewhere that doesn't have a bug-tracking system, etc.

Depends on the company and management. You don't have to have a bug-tracking system to track bugs. Excel will do that.

What you do need is the ability to talk to the developer and discuss what you've found, before raising a defect report.

Maybe it's to weed out the people who start banging on about how the dev team are the enemy and how crap they all are.