25 tough interview questions you'll hope you never have to answer
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Getting thrown off by a hard interview question can be frustrating. But hiring managers toss curveballs all the time.
They ask difficult questions because they want to see whether you can think on your feet and how you behave under pressure, among other things. And how you answer these queries can make or break your chances of landing the job.
To find out some of the toughest questions employers have asked, career coach Celia Currin solicited members of the Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG) — all of whom are senior executives — to share the most difficult questions they have asked, or been asked, in a job interview.
Here are 25 of the toughest questions she collected:
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'How many gas stations are there in the US?' (or other tricky riddles)
Executives also mentioned these: "How many cans of Coke will be consumed on campus today?" and "How many girls in the US play softball?"
Riddles are fun to figure out when you've got all the time in the world and nobody's assessing your thought process, or judging your answer. But when you're faced with questions like these in the hot seat, it can be stressful.
'Can you guess my job if I give you 10 questions?'
The executive who was thrown this curveball said he started by asking the interviewer, "What was your first job?"
He said she "loved it" because most people would ask her things like what her major was, and where she went to college, and would never figured it out.
'What don't you want me to know about you?'
The executive who said he asks this tough question likes to follow up with another challenging query: "What makes you angry?"
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