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Your least favorite interview question?
Started by hungrybox
Ditto! I have 2-3x more books than games and movies combined... and I probably wouldn't have ever gotten married if the opposite were true.
Nothing quite that involved!
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hahaaa. That's what goes through my head every time I see coffee there. Big decision apparently
Q: "How did you gain clinical exposure to determine medicine was a good fit"
A: "Uhhhhh by shadowing and volunteering with patients for hundreds of hours?" I hate closed file interviews.
Adcom: "Any questions about the school for me?"
Me: "I'm excited to learn about the school from the students during the rest of the day. In my experience adcoms just try to sell the school to you when they answer questions. So I guess I'm saying I have questions but not for you..." awk silence and then ended the interview 10 mins early.
Result: accepted
A: "Uhhhhh by shadowing and volunteering with patients for hundreds of hours?" I hate closed file interviews.
Adcom: "Any questions about the school for me?"
Me: "I'm excited to learn about the school from the students during the rest of the day. In my experience adcoms just try to sell the school to you when they answer questions. So I guess I'm saying I have questions but not for you..." awk silence and then ended the interview 10 mins early.
Result: accepted
Yes, but just as the oral tradition of the cavemen shifted to Greek plays, the primary medium for storytelling has undoubtedly shifted from novels to either movies or TV shows.
Yeah. I actually don't own any games. I haven't played any for years. I do watch a lot of movies though.
Back in early November, I was asked, "So what are your thoughts on the GS Warriors' defense and rebounding since they lost their 2 main centers?"
I hated it coz I could talk about that for hours but had to restrain myself. Plus at the that time, the W's defense was pretty terrible and it was very difficult to defend the credibility of Zaza Pachulia...
I hated it coz I could talk about that for hours but had to restrain myself. Plus at the that time, the W's defense was pretty terrible and it was very difficult to defend the credibility of Zaza Pachulia...
Not directly during the interview, but one of my least favorite parts of interview day is when the interviewees go around sharing "one interesting fact" about themselves. Most people seem to interpret this question as a chance to humblebrag about their research/gap year masters/pending publication. Which, to me at least, isn't interesting at all. I wish people could at least just pretend to be normal, fun human beings outside the actual interview, and talk about their hobbies or favorite food or something!
What did you say? I'd probably mention something unique but nothing that could come across as masturbatory.
I was asked about football. I'm not a football fan.
Agreed. It's not the time to brag about your latest pub or how many babies you saved from pediatric cancer AIDS.
My go-to is "When I was a kid I lived on a [specific unusual animal] farm."
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"Any more questions?"
"One time, 2 buddies and I slayed 2 'monster' pizzas in one sitting after doing a baseball game pep band."
Really any closed file interview. I don't really understand the point of having a 20-30 minute interaction with someone who knows nothing about me and will make an evaluation based solely on what I had the opportunity to talk about.
Maybe I've just had bad luck with this type of interview, but it's always been really shallow generic questions because the interviewer doesn't really have any foundation to build on
Maybe I've just had bad luck with this type of interview, but it's always been really shallow generic questions because the interviewer doesn't really have any foundation to build on
Hate this too. Had a student closed file interview and she kept looking at her list of points she was supposed to evaluate me on and at one point was like "sooooo....... leadership??" and it was all just very awkwardly executed yikes.
Oh god. What did you do? I'm sitting here eating lunch and thinking this through and coming up with absolutely nothing.
I hated that question for that very reason as well. I always answer with some weird thing about my obsession with baseball/hockey/football as a female. That's very much my go to, as I cannot think of another interesting thing about me when put on the spot. I hated the what are you doing now question with other interviewees. It's a great way to feel inferior, lol. So I cracked a joke instead and said I am retail slave.
Yup, I think the interviewer just has to be an excellent conversationalist for it to work. I had people list things off a paper too, and it was just weird.
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Q- "So you're on a boat, and you have to throw someone off. Who would you throw off?"
A- "Who's on the boat with me..?"
Q- "That's for you to decide."
I was asked this randomly in the middle of one of my interviews. Then they went immediately back to normal questions. My last question for that interview was as follows:
"At the end of one of the Harry Potter books, Slytherin is ahead in house points. However, Dumbledore allots points to Gryffindor, resulting in them winning the house competition. How do you feel about that?"
A- "Who's on the boat with me..?"
Q- "That's for you to decide."
I was asked this randomly in the middle of one of my interviews. Then they went immediately back to normal questions. My last question for that interview was as follows:
"At the end of one of the Harry Potter books, Slytherin is ahead in house points. However, Dumbledore allots points to Gryffindor, resulting in them winning the house competition. How do you feel about that?"
To determine your suitability for a career in the OR.
You lack insight.
You have insight but lack honesty.
Voldemort. Throw Voldemort off.
Good because it meant that the monstrosity of writing that Rowling called book 1 was finally over and the quality of storytelling only improved after that.
this honestly sounds like the best interview everQ- "So you're on a boat, and you have to throw someone off. Who would you throw off?"
A- "Who's on the boat with me..?"
Q- "That's for you to decide."
I was asked this randomly in the middle of one of my interviews. Then they went immediately back to normal questions. My last question for that interview was as follows:
"At the end of one of the Harry Potter books, Slytherin is ahead in house points. However, Dumbledore allots points to Gryffindor, resulting in them winning the house competition. How do you feel about that?"
This is perfect actually. Right when everyone is like snooooozzzzzze... I would bust out my stories about circus arts training. Haven't had the opportunity yet though. The last time this happened one girl had just finished her story about chasing her research rat around the lab so I had to follow that with the time I chased a student all around town. He locked himself in a stranger's van in the Home Depot parking lot and the police had to bring him back.
Should have gone with these answers!
Haha, it was definitely unique! Luckily none of these questions were asked without a smile/snicker. If it wasn't such a relaxed environment, I probably would have panicked.
It kind of sounds like what I imagine HMS asking.
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"What advice would you give to our president elect on the healthcare system in this country"
Was asked this in an interview at two different schools.
Was asked this in an interview at two different schools.
You didn't like the first book??
My mom wanted me to go to boarding school for middle school and I had an interview where they asked if I thought Snape was good or evil. Naive 12 year old me was like "Snape is the worst there's no way he could be good". I didn't get in...
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Who did you say you would throw off the boat? I hope you said Donald Trump
Just kidding, that could be a risky answer.
Advice must only be given in Twitter form
Ugh why didn't I think of this!
"Well ma'am, to give him advice I would probably first need to create a Twitter account"
No, it reads incredibly formulaic. Her descriptions when she 'sets the scene' for each new location were all the same; "kid X was playing with [magical thing] which [property of magical thing], kid Y was deeply engrossed in [book with wizardry-related title], and kid Z had just [messing up of a spell/whathaveyou and it backfired for comic relief]."
Every. Freaking. Time.
"Definitely my brother" without the slightest hesitation. They all cracked upWho did you say you would throw off the boat? I hope you said Donald Trump
Him: What's one mistake you've made?
Me: (I think for ten seconds.) I can't think of one.
Him: You've never made a mistake?
Me: No I've made lots, I just can't remember.
Him: Okay.
Me: We make many mistakes in life. But if you try to define a single mistake, it's very hard, because no one mistake really determines who we are or where we're at.
Him: ... That's true.
They're taking a long time to reject me.
Me: (I think for ten seconds.) I can't think of one.
Him: You've never made a mistake?
Me: No I've made lots, I just can't remember.
Him: Okay.
Me: We make many mistakes in life. But if you try to define a single mistake, it's very hard, because no one mistake really determines who we are or where we're at.
Him: ... That's true.
They're taking a long time to reject me.
Haha I never would've noticed that but you're absolutely right. I don't think I'll ever be able to read it the same now.
Deep
Yeah it was absolutely exhausting for me to read. I've never read them all, but my wife wanted me to before I started school. I just finished 4 and will probably start 5 today. Glad I kept with it because after book 1 the quality of writing improved 5-fold
I'm gathering from this thread that the fact that I've never read Harry Potter will put me at a significant disadvantage during interviews. I guess I have some work to do.
Who did you say you would throw off the boat? I hope you said Donald Trump
I feel like you could get yourself into trouble with a question like that. If I had to be positive about the guy, I'd have a really hard time lying
This is funny
I was up late last night watching Seth Myers (judge me, lol), and that came up a million times
They're really fast. You could do 100 pages a day in under 2 hours.
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I refuse to watch a movie of something I haven't read. I'm going to marathon the HP movies after I finish the last one
Some were a major letdown. The books are better.
This question has happened a lot at job interviews.
(Me wearing a dress shirt)
You really have wide shoulders, do you lift weights?
I do...
(Me wearing a dress shirt)
You really have wide shoulders, do you lift weights?
I do...
That's kind of what I'm getting from reading them. There's a lot of little stuff that I can imagine them fudging.
I grew up reading the books. I've read all of them several times so I was (am?) a Harry Potter nerd. I picked up on the little stuff and it bugged me lol but that's the issue with movies, you can't include everything.
