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对大多数人来说，能对常见的面试题做出让人印象深刻的回答并非易事，比如“你最大的缺点是什么？”或者“你未来五年的规划是怎样的？”但如果一位招聘经理问你：“你对花园小矮人有什么看法？”或者“圣雄甘地能否成为一名优秀的软件工程师？”你又该如何应对？ For most of us, coming up with dazzling replies to the perennial standard interview queries -- say, "What's your greatest weakness?" or "Where do you see yourself in five years?" -- is plenty challenging. But what would you say if a hiring manager asked you, "What do you think of garden gnomes?" Or how about: "Would Mahatma Gandhi have made a good software engineer?" 美国职场互动网站Glassdoor梳理了26,000多家公司对求职者进行的约115,000次面试，找出了其中堪称本年度最无厘头的面试考题。其中若干具有代表性的问题如下。 To find the year's most unusual questions, researchers at career site Glassdoor combed through job seekers' reviews of about 115,000 interviews at more than 26,000 companies. Here is a sampling of what they found: “周五下午2:30，旧金山有多少人在使用Facebook？”——谷歌公司（Google）供应商关系经理面试题。 "How many people are using Facebook in San Francisco at 2:30 on a Friday?" — Google (GOOG) (vendor relations manager) “给你五分钟时间，说点有意思的事来听听。我不会打断你。”——市场营销公司Acosta领导力开发项目面试题。 "Just entertain me for five minutes. I'm not going to talk." — Acosta (leadership development program associate) “假设德国人是全世界最高的人，你要如何证明这一点？”——惠普公司（Hewlett-Packard）产品营销经理面试题。 "If Germans were the tallest people in the world, how would you prove it?" — Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) (product marketing manager) “给你20个易碎灯泡（这些灯泡到了一定高度就会碎裂）和一栋一百层高的大楼，你如何确定灯泡在什么高度会碎裂？”——高通公司（Qualcomm）工程师面试题。 "Given 20 'destructible' light bulbs (which break at a certain height), and a building with 100 floors, how would you determine the height where the light bulbs break?" — Qualcomm (QCOM) (engineer) “你对花园小矮人有什么看法？”——“老乔的店”连锁超市（Trader Joe’s）面试题。 "What do you think of garden gnomes?" — Trader Joe's (team member) “圣雄甘地能成为一位优秀的软件工程师吗？”——德勤会计师事务所（Deloitte）分析师面试题。 "Would Mahatma Gandhi have made a good software engineer?" — Deloitte (analyst) “假设你是业绩最出色的员工，但所有同事都讨厌你；或者业绩排名不那么靠前，但所有同事都喜欢你，你选择做哪一种？”——业务外包解决方案提供商ADP公司内部销售助理面试题。 "If you could be the #1 employee but have all your coworkers dislike you, or be ranked #15 and have all your coworkers like you, which would you choose?" — ADP (inside sales associate) “你如何解决全球饥荒问题？”——亚马逊公司（Amazon）软件开发员面试题。 "How would you cure world hunger?" — Amazon.com (AMZN) (software developer) “你热爱生活吗？”——安永会计师事务所（Ernst & Young）税务分析师面试题。 "Does life fascinate you?" — Ernst & Young (tax analyst) “憩室炎（diverticulitis）这个单词如何拼写？”——环境管理咨询公司EMSI Engineering客户经理面试题。 "Please spell 'diverticulitis'." — EMSI Engineering (account manager) “没有订书钉的订书机有哪些用途？请举出5个例子。”——易唯思咨询公司（EvaluServe）商业分析师面试题。 "Name five uses of a stapler without staples." — EvaluServe (business analyst) “达拉斯或者沃斯堡居民2008年的汽油消费额是多少？”——美国航空公司（American Airlines）收益经理面试题。 "How much money did residents of Dallas/Fort Worth spend on gasoline in 2008?" — American Airlines (AMR) (revenue manager) “如何把一头大象装进冰箱？”——地平线地产集团（Horizon Group Properties）办公室经理 "How would you get an elephant into a refrigerator?" — Horizon Group Properties (office manager) “现在有多少架飞机正在飞越堪萨斯上空？”——百思买公司（Best Buy）需求规划分析师面试题。 "How many planes are currently flying over Kansas?" — Best Buy (BBY) (demand planning analyst) “把山脚下湖泊里的水运到山顶共有多少种不同的方法？”——迪斯尼乐园（Disney Parks & Resorts）项目工程实习生面试题。 "How many different ways can you get water from a lake at the foot of a mountain, up to the top of the mountain?" — Disney Parks & Resorts (DIS) (project engineering intern) “你要百事可乐还是可口可乐？”——联合健康集团（United Health Group）项目副经理面试题。 "Pepsi or Coke?" — United Health Group (associate project manager) “你呼出的气是热的吗？”——沃克营销公司（Walker Marketing）客户经理面试题。 "Are you exhaling warm air?" — Walker Marketing (client manager) “如果你是一款微软（Microsoft）办公软件，你会是哪一款？”——巅峰竞技设备公司（Summit Racing Equipment）电子商务经理面试题。 "If you were a Microsoft Office program, which one would you be?" — Summit Racing Equipment (e-commerce manager) “你对国会那帮自作聪明的小丑有什么看法？”——统一电气公司（Consolidated Electrical）管理培训生面试题。 "How do you feel about those jokers in Congress?" — Consolidated Electrical (management trainee) Glassdoor报告指出，虽然我们永远也不会碰到这样的问题，但这份清单是个很好的提醒，告诉我们永远要防患于未然。千真万确。 Even if you never get any of these thrown at you, the Glassdoor report notes, the list "serves as a reminder to expect the unexpected." Too true. |
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