Good answers to annoying questions
Jan. 18th, 2005 09:19 amA discussion of 'interview questions' arose at Amber last night.
One of the things that was discussed was 'good' answers to annoyings questions. The particular question in question (as it were) was:
"Tell me 3 bad points about yourself". (Or loosely paraphrased).
So far, our best answers (mostly thanks to
mhw) being:
"One, I can only thing of two things."
"Two, actually I lied about that."
"Three, I can't count either."
"Last time someone asked me that, I jumped up on the desk and strangled them with their own tie. But I'm getting better now."
"I don't suffer you gladly".
So, I thought I thought I might try and do a few LJ entries about the subject. If you can think of a good (either from a line to use in an interview, or just funny) response to the above question, please post a comment.
If you can think of a similar 'difficult' interview question, please post that too.
Let us share the wealth of knowledge, so that nevermore may one be distracted by tough questions.
One of the things that was discussed was 'good' answers to annoyings questions. The particular question in question (as it were) was:
"Tell me 3 bad points about yourself". (Or loosely paraphrased).
So far, our best answers (mostly thanks to
"One, I can only thing of two things."
"Two, actually I lied about that."
"Three, I can't count either."
"Last time someone asked me that, I jumped up on the desk and strangled them with their own tie. But I'm getting better now."
"I don't suffer you gladly".
So, I thought I thought I might try and do a few LJ entries about the subject. If you can think of a good (either from a line to use in an interview, or just funny) response to the above question, please post a comment.
If you can think of a similar 'difficult' interview question, please post that too.
Let us share the wealth of knowledge, so that nevermore may one be distracted by tough questions.
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Date: 2005-01-18 09:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-18 12:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-18 01:16 pm (UTC)Tell me about a time when you had a problem with one of your colleagues, why was that and how did you resolve it?
OR your colleague had a problem with you.
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Date: 2005-01-18 05:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-18 05:55 pm (UTC)Fish
That should have them bemused for a few seconds...