Interview questions

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Originally Posted by DOC

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

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Worst answer:

I am planning to learn everything I can and become your bosses' competitor.
I will dump my product/service into the market to retain more market share, in order to shine my company's top line guidance.
I am very competitive person.

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I don't like the "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" question because I hope to be self employed in that time frame.

One of the strangest that I heard was "In the 1980 Winter Olympics, the USA's Mens Hockey team won the gold medal and it was known as the "miracle on ice". Who did they beat in the final round to win the gold?"

This was in Texas and was supposed to stump me, in which case the answer was supposed to be "I don't know but I'll find out and get back to you on it." or worse get me to blurt out the wrong answer as "the miracle" was beating Russia in the previous round. I'm from MN and happen to have a friend who's brother in law that was on that team, so of course I knew the answer was Finland.

So of course I answer the question correctly, which kinda threw the guy asking the question off his game, he replied "I've never had anyone actually know that off the top of their head."

I am from TX and for job interview in Pennsylvania...Are you a Dallas Cowboys Fan? My answer no....which is true! Got the job offer on Monday...

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Originally Posted by MrPrena

Worst answer:

I am planning to learn everything I can and become your bosses' competitor.
I will dump my product/service into the market to retain more market share, in order to shine my company's top line guidance.
I am very competitive person.

\[LOL]

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Nope I was looking for "Doing your wife."

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Originally Posted by Irving

I don't like the "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" question because I hope to be self employed in that time frame.

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God, I hate that question.

Questions I loathe:
"Do you have any problem working with homosexuals?"

A: I don't have a problem with anyone as long as they do their job.

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Originally Posted by HoneyBadger

Good news!

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Good for whom?

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Originally Posted by XC700116

One of the strangest that I heard was "In the 1980 Winter Olympics, the USA's Mens Hockey team won the gold medal and it was known as the "miracle on ice". Who did they beat in the final round to win the gold?"

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Finland! When do I start!!!

Honestly, I think Hollohas was vetted more thoroughly than most of our political candidates.

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Originally Posted by DOC

Nope I was looking for "Doing your wife."

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it reminded me of this bit. The real answer for me was "Debt free and still working here."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mny0zkq_goM<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mny0zkq_goM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mny0zkq_goM