Check out: Questions asked by Amazon in job interview

We have all been on job interviews where we found ourselves thrown off by a question. As much as we try to prepare for what someone will ask us, there is no way of knowing what bizarre questions will be asked at the interviews.

Along with technical knowledge, many corporations, including Google, Dell, Apple and Amazon, are testing the candidate’s creativity and ingenuity by asking them to field some rather unusual interview questions.

By asking these questions, employers tend to analyze how the candidate reacts to something they did not expect; and figure out whether this person can think on their feet and outside the box. Hence, your answer doesn’t have to be especially brilliant, but it should be somehow creative.

Amazon, world’s largest online retailer, selling everything from books to shampoo, was not an exception in asking such interview questions. Looking through Glassdoor’s massive index of user-submitted interview questions, here we have listed some unusual interview questions that Amazon has asked to job candidates. How would you answer?

1. How would you introduce AWS (Amazon Web Services) in an elevator pitch?

2. Who was your most difficult customer?

3. Should we sell private label cleaning products?

4. Do you know our CEO? How do you pronounce his name?

5. What would you do if somehow you misdirected 10,000 units of something?

6. How would you cure world hunger?

7. What is the most difficult situation you have ever faced in your life? How did you handle it?

8. What is the worst mistake you ever made?

9. If your direct manager was instructing yo to do something you disagreed with, how would you handle it?

10. Tell the story of the last time you had to apologize to someone.

11. “Jeff Bezos walks into your office and says you can have a million dollars to launch your best entrepreneurial idea. what idea do you give him?”

12. Describe what Human Resource means to you.

13. What would you do if you saw someone being unsafe at work?

14. What is the angle between the hour hand and minute hand in an analog clock?

15. You have 30 people working under you with 2 working indirect. Each employee can do 150 units/hour. Each work day has two 15 min breaks and one 30 min lunch. In a 5 day work week, how many total units can you complete?

16. How do you detect whether or not a word is a palindrome?

17. You are Amazon and Samsung offers you 10,000 Samsung Galaxy S3s at a 34% discount. Is that a good deal?

18. Why Amazon? How do we know that you will not leave Amazon soon?

19. What would you do if you found out that your closest friend at work was stealing?

20. Here’s a string with numbers from 1-250 in random order, but it’s missing one number. How will you find the missing number?

21. Which Amazon leadership principle do you resonate most with?

22. Are you willing to work on your feet for ten hours, four days a week?

23. How would you tell a customer what Wi-Fi is?

24. Describe what happens in your browser as soon as you hit enter after writing a URL in the address bar.

25. Do you think you’ll reach a point where you storm off the floor and never return?

26. Would you tell on an employee for stealing?

27. Design an online payment system.

28. How would you solve problems if you were from Mars?

29. How do you persuade people?

30. Walk me through how Amazon Kindle books would be priced.

31. How would you improve Amazon’s website?

32. Give me an example of a time when you were 75% of the way through a project, and you had to pivot strategy how were you able to make that into a success story?

Source: techgig.com