It’s not uncommon to be thrown off by an unusual question during a job interview. In fact, I’m sure we’ve all come face to face with a question that came so far from left field that you were left stuttering and stammering trying to figure out how to process what was just thrown at you. That hasn’t only happened to me, has it?
Big companies like Apple and Google make it a practice to commonly stump interviewees with unorthodox questions to see how the candidate responds on their feet.
Here are some of the most interesting questions asked by Fortune 500 companies during job interviews. (Note: It is perfectly OK to chuckle at a few of these.)