Reply to: Crazy Interview Tests

[Sockpuppet]

Classic. I applied for a gig there but lost it on the personality test, mainly because I openly admitted that I really don't trust other people not to f*k up and leave me in the sh*t.

Stange I think I answered exactly the same. Was it at the Nottingham office? There was so much eye candy round there...it was stupid.

[TheMonkey]

* Capital One gave me a personality questionaire, work experiance questionaire and maths test. Pished over the maths but they said I failed the work experiance as I didnt have enough (well why did you invite me to the interviews morons...you read my CV the same as everyone else)....and that I didnt fit the psych profile of the company (even though the test said there are no right or wrong answers). Maybe it was the question "other peoples problems bother me" to which I responded "no". If they were my problems they would bother me and these by definition are other peoples problems so by definition they dont bother me.

Classic. I applied for a gig there but lost it on the personality test, mainly because I openly admitted that I really don't trust other people not to f*k up and leave me in the sh*t.

[DirtyOldMan]

I always fancied Ruth in a big way you know.
We once worked together, for a very brief period of time, and one day in the lounge bar she asked me for a double entendre.
So I gave her one.
She enjoyed it very much.
And so did I

[DirtyOldMan]

Ahhh but you still got the job though. Good man !

What's it like there, now that Colin's dead and Ruth's just left ?

[Sockpuppet]

Where do I start....

* Went for a job at ASDA as Santa Claus...was asked to draw what Santa Claus looked like on some scrap paper. (didnt get the gig....f*ckers)

* Went for an interview at the "Big W" and I was asked to do a dance for the line manager. I wasnt reserved or professional in telling him that I wasnt interested.

* Went for another interview and they asked me to build a foam bridge and crawl through it. I also injured someone with a foam brick.

* Capital One gave me a personality questionaire, work experiance questionaire and maths test. Pished over the maths but they said I failed the work experiance as I didnt have enough (well why did you invite me to the interviews morons...you read my CV the same as everyone else)....and that I didnt fit the psych profile of the company (even though the test said there are no right or wrong answers). Maybe it was the question "other peoples problems bother me" to which I responded "no". If they were my problems they would bother me and these by definition are other peoples problems so by definition they dont bother me.

* National Stagecoach got some actress to scream at me to see how I would react. I was tempted to scream back....louder.

Thats about it.

[sparklelard]

Erm, you can light a candle in a spaceship. They've obviously not tried.

It'll probably go bang due to the high oxygen levels in manned spacecraft.

[threaded]

If you did the flame would be spherical and heat would be dispersed equally in all directions.

Ah ha, that is the answer to a different question: "why can't you light a candle during free-fall", but it is Oxford after all, so one has to make allowances.

[TheMonkey]

Didn't one of the Apollo ships get burned out on the pad and kill the astronauts. Bloody candles!!

[thunderlizard]

It's easy enough if you leave the spaceship on earth while you do it.

[Paddy]

Erm, you can light a candle in a spaceship. They've obviously not tried.

If you did the flame would be spherical and heat would be dispersed equally in all directions.

[threaded]

Erm, you can light a candle in a spaceship. They've obviously not tried.

[swamp]

It's worse getting in to Oxbridge

Q What percentage of the world’s water is contained in a cow? (veterinary medicine, Cambridge)

Q Explain how a perm works (biochemistry, molecular and cellular, Oxford)

Q Here’s a piece of bark, please talk about it (biological sciences, Oxford)

Q Why do so few Americans believe in evolution? (human sciences, Oxford)

Q Are you cool? (philosophy, politics and economics, Oxford)

Q Why don’t we just have one ear in the middle of our face? (medicine, Cambridge)

Q Put a monetary value on this teapot (PPE, Oxford)

Q If there were three beautiful, naked women standing in front of you, which one would you pick? Does this have any relevance to economics? (PPE, Oxford)

Q Of all 19th-century politicians, which one was most like Tony Blair? (PPE, Oxford)

Q Why can’t you light a candle in a spaceship? (physics, Oxford)

[threaded]

You can't drop a round manhole cover down the hole.

Wrong. Only people who have never actually lifted and replaced such things would think so. Actually it is possible to drop a round manhole cover down the hole. The lip it rests on doesn't generally go all the way around, if it did you'd get problems with lifting the cover due to vacuum, so it you get it just right you can drop it down the hole. Incidentally in the UK they discovered this many many years ago and is why they used to be triangular, and is actually harder to drop down t'ole.

HTH

[threaded]

It's because that's the shape of the manhole, surely.

A correct answer.

[Troll]

I had a telephone interview yesterday.... opening sentence from Doris was " we are actually looking for an ex bank employee"

Total waste of time....antipodean fcukwit