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Most Unique Job Interview Questions

By marioparty34

2 years ago


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    #5 2 years ago

    Round so they will not fit and fall through the hole. A square would fall through if rotated to the corner to corner direction of the opening.

    #8 2 years ago
    Quoted from KozMckPinball:

    2 trains are travelling towards each other on the same First Continental Railroad track. The train leaving Sioux City, Iowa is going 45 mph and the train leaving Portland, Oregon is going 48 mph, neither train has working brakes. A bald eagle is flying back-and-forth between the trains at 35 mph. How far does the eagle fly before the trains collide?

    How far apart are they ? Lol

    #30 2 years ago
    Quoted from KozMckPinball:

    You are taking the interview questionnaire in an office by yourself with no internet access or phone and no one to ask questions to.

    I don’t need any internet or calculator to realize there is not enough information.

    #47 2 years ago

    For electrical engineers, my father told me this is one they would ask sometimes when he was working:
    What is Ohm’s law?

    #52 2 years ago
    Quoted from KozMckPinball:

    Not an EE and without looking it up: V = IR?

    Close
    I = V/R

    psyche, you got it.

    My father actually said some new EE grads would not know it at the job interview. This was around late 80’s. I graduated EE in 93 and could not imagine one of my fellow grads not knowing it. It is like the main building block of electrical.

    #58 2 years ago
    Quoted from Pinball_Postal:

    The EIR, for more, PIE. A EE might not ever work at such lower level. I don't care for the virtual interview where you can't see the interviewer to get feedback. In the middle 70's I was trying to determine what major to take in technical college.
    I talked to the program chairman of coin op and vending (which included pinball and video games) and he said I was not a good candidate for it. I said OK and took Electronic Technology instead.
    30 years later I started collecting pins. I guess I made the right choice.

    In my father’s group they were interviewing people for high voltage power transmission at a major power company. Basic electrical concepts are used all the time in power. My father also would tell me about how in the 80’s they had become more selective in hiring because of Human Resources mandates and were forced to interview from only the highest gpa graduates. The problem with that is they would end up with book smart engineers that lacked common sense and the ability to factor in real world issues such as equipment cost vs. benefit and future load demand vs power generation/supply capabilities, etc.

    Before the mid to late 1980s, newly graduating electrical engineers could typically be very selective in their job search but it became much harder to find jobs after the late 80’s economic changes.

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