For job hunters who are looking to get in at Amazon, you’d better start thinking of ways to solve one of the world’s biggest problems. According to the anonymous job site Glassdoor.com, Amazon’s HR team is likely going to ask you, “How would you cure world hunger?”
Glassdoor has a list of 25 “oddball questions” that interviewers ask potential employees at job interviews at 20 top companies including Amazon, Google, Disney Theme Parks and Trader Joe’s. eBookNewser has more: “Google’s question is more specific. The search giant asks, ‘How many people are using Facebook in San Francisco at 2:30pm on a Friday?'”
EMSI Engineering wants good spellers, asking recruits, “Please spell ‘diverticulitis’.” Acosta wants employees who can entertain, asking, “Just entertain me for five minutes, I’m not going to talk.” And HP wants those who can show their work, asking, “If Germans were the tallest people in the world, how would you prove it?”
