One Job Interview Question That Is Actually A Test

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A Goldman Sachs job interview question might have been 'If you were shrunk to the size of a pencil and put in a blender how would you get out?'-And people wonder why banksters were at the center of the crash.

I digress this is one of those test with in a test questions. It's a see how they react and HOW they answer it rather than what the answer is. People in HR world love to profile job applicants more than the FBI does serial killers.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/see-answer-insanely-difficult-goldman-152323831.html


 

I like the answer where the applicant would just erase the blender, even though it wan't indicated they would BE a pencil, just the be the size of a pencil. Creative, never the less.
 
Well, since I had obviously fallen down some rabbit hole and ended up in Wonderland, I would look around inside the blender, notice a piece of mushroom stuck to the blades and eat it. Then, I would instantly grow to gigantic proportions, escape from the blender and deliver a sharp blow to the nose of whoever made me shrink in the first place.

Then I would ask what the hell does that nonsense have to do with the price of fish?
 
Dame Warrigal said:
Well, since I had obviously fallen down some rabbit hole and ended up in Wonderland, I would look around inside the blender, notice a piece of mushroom stuck to the blades and eat it. Then, I would instantly grow to gigantic proportions, escape from the blender and deliver a sharp blow to the nose of whoever made me shrink in the first place.

Then I would ask what the hell does that nonsense have to do with the price of fish?
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In corporate HR world(Human Resources or personnel) the response to that test is profiled, profiling has become used more frequently over the last decade or two simply because they can. It gives lazy or ignorant hr's & hiring managers an out or an excuse to hire.

The US job market has been in a steady decline since the around the late 1970s with competition from overseas, technology & downsizing or streamlining strategies. The job market or hiring process favors the employer ie they literally need reasons NOT to hire someone when they get hundreds of applicants for one job opening. Or the opposite, profiling questions can separate job candidates with similar paper resumes. Or so they say.
 
My answer is completely in line with my profile.

I am imaginative, literate (I've read books) and I can stand up for myself.
I am prepared to challenge my superiors when they appear to be acting irrationally.
I deserve a job at executive level. :grin:
 
Dame Warrigal said:
My answer is completely in line with my profile.

I am imaginative, literate (I've read books) and I can stand up for myself.
I am prepared to challenge my superiors when they appear to be acting irrationally.
I deserve a job at executive level. :grin:
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I would hire you based on that but the problem everyone's seems to say the samething.

For those Star Trek fans out there this reminds of the Kobayashi Maru. The only way to win a no win scenario is to cheat. I guess in Goldman Sachs bankster world that's the norm.
 
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