Odd interview question

[r3n4ud]

Hey folks. Was at a group interview recently and after presenting ourselves, we were asked to name our favorite chocolate bar. I thought that was an odd question to ask. No doubt there is meaning behind this question. Anyone have any idea what it means or ever been asked this question or a similar question? While people were answering I was trying to figure out what the interviewer was trying to get out of us.

BTW, if anyone is wondering, I told the interview I don't eat chocolate...just to be different from everyone else as I was the last person asked

[DereX888]

In this politically correct idiocracy we live in, employers are not allowed to ask many important questions, hence the need for "clever" tests that can reveal plenty of one's shortcomings.
Fat people are lazy (and even if they are trying to be hardworking, they get tired at work waaay more faster than normal or skinny people, so don't pick on me for stating the obvious). Would you hire lazy person if you were the employer?
If your favorite chocolate is the Super King Size bar containing gazillion of calories, the chances are you are - or soon will become - a fat lazy bastard
(that's just example, I don't really know what information they were trying to get by asking you this particular question; if you have posted all the questions you had there only then we could try to establish relevance, relations etc - anyways if they were trying to establish your dietary preferences in relation of you becoming fat lazy bastard - then your answer was the best another simple example: if you were being interviewed and hired for a position in a food warehouse, and sometime later they would find bunch of the same as your favorite chocolate bars missing (and/or eaten on premises), obviously company computer would point at you as one of the suspects )

BTW this question must have been related to few other "odd" questions. These tests are always designed the way that they establish your answer (to what they want to know) by asking at least couple or more times about same/similar things in other seemingly unrelated questions.
All these psychological tests and evaluations are there not only to make sure you "fit" for the position you applied for, but to get as much about you as possible (even if irrevelant to the job you applied for). These tests are easy to "beat" if you think well and give them "right" answers (as relevant to the position you are applying for: obviously they don't want a "leader type of person" when you apply for some warehouse labourer job, but they will welcome your "leader-type" characteristics when you apply for some management position; you just have to use your brain before answering ANY - not only seemingly irrelevant questions - and you can easily make such tests work for you Simply put: always give answers as fit to the position/situation/status/many other factors/ you are being "interviewed" for, never answer truthfuly - well, unless the truth is the "right" answer in a given moment, of course)

HTH

[adam]

These types of questions are very common early on in interviews. They serve as an icebreaker since it gets you talking without worrying too much about your answer since there is no right or wrong answer. It maybe puts the interviewee at ease knowing that they aren't going to be asked hard questions right out of the starting gate.

These questions are also used to see how you think on your feet. They don't care what your favorite chocolate bar is but they are interested in seeing how you answer questions that you obviously haven't prepared for. Anyone can prepare a canned response to anticipated questions about qualifications, goals, experience, etc... but some people freeze like deer in headlights when asked a simple, meaningless question simply because it is so open ended and requires them to list a specific example.

For instance...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRkWebP2Q0Y

[DereX888]

but some people freeze like deer in headlights when asked a simple, meaningless question simply because it is so open ended and requires them to list a specific example.

Yup, I've seen it many times

For instance...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRkWebP2Q0Y

L O L !

Sometimes I wish she made it as a veep... we'd have cool White House Comedy Hour with every press conference

[greymalkin]

yep that's a dumb question...and lying for your interview is equally as dumb. I've never asked or been asked a question like then when interviewing or giving an interview...