对大多数人来说，能对常见的面试题做出让人印象深刻的回答并非易事，比如“你最大的缺点是什么？”或者“你未来五年的规划是怎样的？”但如果一位招聘经理问你：“你对花园小矮人有什么看法？”或者“圣雄甘地能否成为一名优秀的软件工程师？”你又该如何应对？

    美国职场互动网站Glassdoor梳理了26,000多家公司对求职者进行的约115,000次面试，找出了其中堪称本年度最无厘头的面试考题。其中若干具有代表性的问题如下。

    • “周五下午2:30，旧金山有多少人在使用Facebook？”——谷歌公司（Google）供应商关系经理面试题。

    • “给你五分钟时间，说点有意思的事来听听。我不会打断你。”——市场营销公司Acosta领导力开发项目面试题。

    • “假设德国人是全世界最高的人，你要如何证明这一点？”——惠普公司（Hewlett-Packard）产品营销经理面试题。

    • “给你20个易碎灯泡（这些灯泡到了一定高度就会碎裂）和一栋一百层高的大楼，你如何确定灯泡在什么高度会碎裂？”——高通公司（Qualcomm）工程师面试题。

    • “你对花园小矮人有什么看法？”——“老乔的店”连锁超市（Trader Joe’s）面试题。

    • “圣雄甘地能成为一位优秀的软件工程师吗？”——德勤会计师事务所（Deloitte）分析师面试题。

    • “假设你是业绩最出色的员工，但所有同事都讨厌你；或者业绩排名不那么靠前，但所有同事都喜欢你，你选择做哪一种？”——业务外包解决方案提供商ADP公司内部销售助理面试题。

    • “你如何解决全球饥荒问题？”——亚马逊公司（Amazon）软件开发员面试题。

    • “你热爱生活吗？”——安永会计师事务所（Ernst & Young）税务分析师面试题。

    • “憩室炎（diverticulitis）这个单词如何拼写？”——环境管理咨询公司EMSI Engineering客户经理面试题。

    • “没有订书钉的订书机有哪些用途？请举出5个例子。”——易唯思咨询公司（EvaluServe）商业分析师面试题。

    • “达拉斯或者沃斯堡居民2008年的汽油消费额是多少？”——美国航空公司（American Airlines）收益经理面试题。

    • “如何把一头大象装进冰箱？”——地平线地产集团（Horizon Group Properties）办公室经理面试题。

    For most of us, coming up with dazzling replies to the perennial standard interview queries -- say, "What's your greatest weakness?" or "Where do you see yourself in five years?" -- is plenty challenging. But what would you say if a hiring manager asked you, "What do you think of garden gnomes?" Or how about: "Would Mahatma Gandhi have made a good software engineer?"

    To find the year's most unusual questions, researchers at career site Glassdoor combed through job seekers' reviews of about 115,000 interviews at more than 26,000 companies. Here is a sampling of what they found:

    • "How many people are using Facebook in San Francisco at 2:30 on a Friday?" — Google (GOOG) (vendor relations manager)

    • "Just entertain me for five minutes. I'm not going to talk." — Acosta (leadership development program associate)

    • "If Germans were the tallest people in the world, how would you prove it?" — Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) (product marketing manager)

    • "Given 20 'destructible' light bulbs (which break at a certain height), and a building with 100 floors, how would you determine the height where the light bulbs break?" — Qualcomm (QCOM) (engineer)

    • "What do you think of garden gnomes?" — Trader Joe's (team member)

    • "Would Mahatma Gandhi have made a good software engineer?" — Deloitte (analyst)

    • "If you could be the #1 employee but have all your coworkers dislike you, or be ranked #15 and have all your coworkers like you, which would you choose?" — ADP (inside sales associate)

    • "How would you cure world hunger?" — Amazon.com (AMZN) (software developer)

    • "Does life fascinate you?" — Ernst & Young (tax analyst)

    • "Please spell 'diverticulitis'." — EMSI Engineering (account manager)

    • "Name five uses of a stapler without staples." — EvaluServe (business analyst)

    • "How much money did residents of Dallas/Fort Worth spend on gasoline in 2008?" — American Airlines (AMR) (revenue manager)

    • "How would you get an elephant into a refrigerator?" — Horizon Group Properties (office manager)

    • “现在有多少架飞机正在飞越堪萨斯上空？”——百思买公司（Best Buy）需求规划分析师面试题。

    • “把山脚下湖泊里的水运到山顶共有多少种不同的方法？”——迪斯尼乐园（Disney Parks & Resorts）项目工程实习生面试题。

    • “你要百事可乐还是可口可乐？”——联合健康集团（United Health Group）项目副经理面试题。

    • “你呼出的气是热的吗？”——沃克营销公司（Walker Marketing）客户经理面试题。

    • “如果你是一款微软（Microsoft）办公软件，你会是哪一款？”——巅峰竞技设备公司（Summit Racing Equipment）电子商务经理面试题。

    • “你对国会那帮自作聪明的小丑有什么看法？”——统一电气公司（Consolidated Electrical）管理培训生面试题。

    Glassdoor报告指出，虽然我们永远也不会碰到这样的问题，但这份清单是个很好的提醒，告诉我们永远要防患于未然。千真万确。

    译者：李玫晓/汪皓

    • "How many planes are currently flying over Kansas?" — Best Buy (BBY) (demand planning analyst)

    • "How many different ways can you get water from a lake at the foot of a mountain, up to the top of the mountain?" — Disney Parks & Resorts (DIS) (project engineering intern)

    • "Pepsi or Coke?" — United Health Group (associate project manager)

    • "Are you exhaling warm air?" — Walker Marketing (client manager)

    • "If you were a Microsoft Office program, which one would you be?" — Summit Racing Equipment (e-commerce manager)

    • "How do you feel about those jokers in Congress?" — Consolidated Electrical (management trainee)

    Even if you never get any of these thrown at you, the Glassdoor report notes, the list "serves as a reminder to expect the unexpected." Too true.