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Discussion on: Best Answers to "Loaded" Interview Questions?

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Austin S. Hemmelgarn

My favorite relates to a friend of mine, although it's not exactly a pointless question that it relates to.

A few years back my friend was interviewing for a mechanical engineering position at a manufacturing company. About 10 minutes into the interview, he was asked to model a part in AutoCAD based on an actual physical sample of the part together with a simple description. He read through the description, spent about two or three minutes examining the sample part, and then caught the interviewer completely off guard when he asked whether the sample part or the description should be considered the authoritative source of information. He had, somehow without even picking up any of the tools on the desk before him, noticed that the part was made of a completely different type of steel than the description called for, and was a few tenths of an inch too short in one dimension compared to the description. He got hired on the spot.

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kaelscion

Thanks for sharing! Talk about unequivocally proving you're the person for the job!