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What are some fun or interesting questions you've been asked in an interview? For my current job, I was asked this: "Let's say you just got the call & were offered the job. The first thing you think is -- hallelujah, I'll never have to do ______ again! Fill in the blank." My answer: shovel snow from my driveway. I was at the end of my third winter in Maine, where we had 8' of snow this year, and I'm now happily back in Oregon and no longer own a snow shovel!
Years ago, when I applied for my first reference job, one of the questions was simply "what are you reading right now?" That seems like a perfectly suitably question to ask anyone who wants to work in a library. When they asked it I remember thinking that this was really a place where I would enjoy working, and it was.
Anybody else have any funny or particularly thoughtful interview questions they have been asked?
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I wasn't asked this question; it was asked to one of my classmates in library school. I think it ranks at the top of the most bizarre interview questions I've ever heard. The interviewer asked: If you flipped out one day and came to work to shoot up the place, would you shoot everyone or just your supervisors?
I can't remember how he answered it... but he did get the job.
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