Thomas Edison's soup-er interview process & 10 strange hiring Q's

The recruitment process of Thomas Edison, the man who invented the lightbulb, was as weird and wonderful as you might expect from a man who spent his life inventing.

Offering candidates who were interviewing for the role of Research Assistant, a bowl of soup, Edison watched whether they would add salt or pepper – Inc reports.

If they did add salt or pepper, Edison would rule the candidate out from the job. Why? It is because Edison believed that the candidate had made an assumption about the taste of the soup and assumptions tend to stifle innovation.

Although Edison’s soup-centred applicant test might appear to be outlandish and strange, it’s not too dissimilar from many of the tests that many recruiters and hiring firms employ.