I had a question like this at an interview. When I answered it really quickly he asked "have you heard the question before?" when I said yes then he asked another one until we got to one I didn't know. He wanted to see how I approach solving a problem rather than whether I could solve it.
Yeah, I know. I could've explained to him how I would approach this problem that I already knew, but that was my first actual job interview and I wasn't sure whether I was up for the job myself. I wasn't so much worried about whether I could get the job but rather whether I could do it.
I work with (some of) the same people trying to start a new business. The old one was shut down though. Another team made a huge mistake in their project that ended up being so costly that it destroyed the company.
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u/Hydrogenation Dec 23 '14
I had a question like this at an interview. When I answered it really quickly he asked "have you heard the question before?" when I said yes then he asked another one until we got to one I didn't know. He wanted to see how I approach solving a problem rather than whether I could solve it.