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HR Dilemma: Do confusing job interview questions work?

HR Dilemma: Do confusing job interview questions work?

Business leaders seem to be queueing up to reveal their favourite job interview questions.

They range from the bizarre to the brain-boggling to the self-reflective. But do they work?

YouTube’s CEO, Susan Wojcicki, told The New York Times that her go-to interview question follows on from her detailing a specific YouTube product: “How would you make it better?”

Elon Musk, Founder of SpaceX, told the World Government Summit in Dubai that he grills candidates in the following way: “Tell me the story of your life, and the decisions that you made along the way, and why you made them, and also tell me about some of the most difficult problems you worked on, and how you solved them."

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