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Questions were shared by job candidates during the past year. 1) "If you were shrunk to the size of a pencil and put in a blender, how would you get out? " -- Asked for an analyst position at Goldman Sachs. 2) "How many ridges [are there] around a quarter? " -- Asked for a project analyst position at Deloitte. 3) "What is the philosophy of martial arts? " 4) "Explain [to] me what has happened in this country during the last 10 years. " -- Asked for a consultant position at Boston Consulting. 5) "Rate on a scale of 1 to 10 how weird you are. " -- Asked for an operations analyst position at Capital One. 6) "How many basketball[s] can you fit in this room?
" 7) "Out of 25 horses, pick the fastest 3 horses.