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? Memorably Bad Question
#13

I interviewed a candidate who responded to every one of
my questions with a question. She didn’t answer any of my
questions but countered every single one of them with one
of her own. The interview went something like this:

ME: Tell me about yourself.
CANDIDATE: Tell me more about your company.
I gave her an overview of the company.
ME: I’d like to discuss the skills you bring to this job.
CANDIDATE: Tell me about the skills required to be
successful in this job.
I told her.
ME: What is your salary history?
CANDIDATE: Does this position offer a competitive salary
compared to similar positions at other companies?
It went on like this for a while. At first I humored her,
but when it became clear she would not answer a single
question, I decided she’d be impossible to manage and
quickly ended the interview.

Eric Stamos
Cofounder
Zakle.com

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