Are there interview questions with only neutral or bad answers?

[cryhavoc]

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Like, "What kind of cookie would you be?"

or

"What will be the hardest part of medical school for you."

I don't think it will lose me points to say "Sugar cookie, and keeping my schedule balanced so that I spend enough time covering everything and not overly focusing on one thing."

That is pretty neutral. I don't see anyone thinking, "Excellent answer!"

But I can see, "White chocolate chip macadamia because I'm sweet but totally nuts! And balancing my binge drinking with going to lecture."

Seems like only neutral or bad answers.

Or am I not seeing how I could use such simple questions to look good?

 

[deleted407021]

Is double chocolate chip URM?

 

[cryhavoc]

Another bad answer, "I'd be a sugar cookie because I can be decorated to look diverse, but underneath I'm allowing myself to be shaped into the same, boring mold that your soul-crushing establishment generates through mass production."

There are just so many interview questions with no awesome answer. I just wonder if they are there to catch people with bad ones.

 

[Goro]

Yes. No, I'm not sharing.

It's more likely that ethics questions will not have a right answers, or multiple right answers, but there can definitely be a wrong answer.

To the cookie question you posit (or "what kind of tree would you be?" or "what would be your Secret Service "code-name?"), the only wrong answer would be a deer-in-the-headlights stare followed by "I don't know".

Like, "What kind of cookie would you be?"

or

"What will be the hardest part of medical school for you."

I don't think it will lose me points to say "Sugar cookie, and keeping my schedule balanced so that I spend enough time covering everything and not overly focusing on one thing."

That is pretty neutral. I don't see anyone thinking, "Excellent answer!"

But I can see, "White chocolate chip macadamia because I'm sweet but totally nuts! And balancing my binge drinking with going to lecture."

Seems like only neutral or bad answers.

Or am I not seeing how I could use such simple questions to look good?

That's exactly what they're for. Believe it or not, there are people who may be very classroom smart, but simply can't think on their feet. They will NOT make for good doctors.


There are just so many interview questions with no awesome answer. I just wonder if they are there to catch people with bad ones.

 

[cryhavoc]

I see. I've seen on here people recommend you treat it like a normal conversation (respectfully of course), and don't babble on too much. I've been looking over lists of questions and thinking, "This is a waste of time, I could answer any of these with literally 1 second of thought, there is no point preparing beyond knowing your own app and maybe having knowledge of healthcare issues."