Friday, June 27, 2014

Crazy MBA Interview Questions from the Financial Times

The Financial Times has the following article about the craziest MBA interview questions.

  • If you could be any animal, what would you be?
  • How can you think that a company will pay you $100,000 a year after your MBA?
  • How many hours would a dog take to walk from Madrid to Barcelona with a can on its tail?
  • In what circumstances would you allow a lie?
  • What is the weight in tons of Manhattan?
  • What would you do if a lion entered the room at this moment?
  • So you want to work in finance – tell me how would you value a dinosaur
  • Explain your last job profile to a 10-year-old.
  • Two, six, 42, 1806 . . . what number comes next?
  • A room with a light in the centre. There are 3 switches and only one controls the light. How do you know for sure which switch controls the light if you can only enter the room once?
  • Do you believe in Santa Claus?
  • Estimate the cost of the ceiling tile above your head including the electricity and plumbing.
  • Evaluate yourself on key Bible sins.
  • How do you extract greater value for your product from your value chain without hurting the business relationships with your distributors and other value chain players?
  • How many golf balls fit inside a 747 jet?
  • How many hours would a dog take to walk from Madrid to Barcelona with a can on its tail?
  • How would you like to be remembered when you die
  • If you had to choose between fighting either a lion or a shark in its natural habitat, which would you chose?
  • If you were a shape, what shape would you be?
  • If your life would be made into a movie, what would the title be?
  • Please prove to me that you are not arrogant.
  • Teach me something about my company that I don’t know.
  • Tell me about a time you had to ask “why?” five times.
  • What do your friends believe is true about you that is actually a lie and why
  • What is the chance that two people in the city of New York have the same number of hairs on their heads?

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