Managers: Please Stop Asking Riddles in Interviews

Jake Wilder
4 min readAug 2, 2021

You’re Wasting Your Time and Your Credibility

“I need some good questions to throw off this candidate,” a friend recently told me. “I think I’m going to ask how many golf balls would fit in the room.” Try as I might to dissuade her, she was set on asking it. Even more unfortunate, she’s far from the only manager still asking these ridiculous interview questions.

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Jake Wilder

I don’t know where I’m going. But at least I know how to get there.