You sometimes find yourself dreaming of working for a big company. This dream is sometimes driven by the thought of benefits and other monetary gains you hope to get from working for them. Therefore to ensure that you stand a chance you focus mainly on ensuring that you have the right academic qualifications that may be required to fit in the criteria.

However what you fail to understand is that such companies have a particular breed of employees that they are looking for. To ensure they only get the best they develop their own set of interview rules to identify them. These are in terms of questions which can sound odd to you as sometimes they do not directly reflect your job position or your academic level. These are some of the questions these companies are known to ask.

When you apply for product manager position with Google. The company will expect you to choose a city of your liking and give an estimate number of piano tuners that operate a business within that city. Am sure you won’t see such a question coming. The other question the company will ask you when applying for an associate account strategist position is to choose a song that you would wish to play whenever you walk into a room. You may wonder how relevant that question is to your field of study but you will still need to answer it.

A company such as Facebook will ask you how much you will charge to wash a window in a city such as Seattle when you apply for an online sale operations position. But for a data scientist position the question will be how many Macs a company such as McDonalds sells yearly in America.

Apple the technology giant will ask a red zone specialist what he thought his best friend will want him to work on. However when you apply for a position such as the global supply manager, the question will sound like how many children are born in the world on a daily basis. This means you will need to be conversant with global statistics.

The airplane manufacturer Boeing will ask an engineer what he thinks of things like lava lamps and Dilbert. No engineer can expect such a question from such a reputable company. The same case is witness with St Jude Medical, whereby an electrical engineer is asked why there are so many manholes around.

Some big companies just pick on specific random questions like Cisco will ask a senior technical writer what kind of tree he thinks he is. MasterCard will ask you what you would do if a fellow employee complained to you of a colleague with an offensive body odor. To you the question may seem irrelevant but they are very important indicators to them.

Biogen will want to know how your childhood was like when you apply for area business manager position and Medtronic will want to know what you will hate about a the job you are applying for with them.

Some companies will ask you question that will make your imagination go wild. A good example is Microsoft that will want to know what kind of a super power you would want to have when you apply for a high level product leader position. Intel will ask you to design something like let say a spike rack for the blind if you are a hardware engineer. While Celgene will simply ask you to tell them a story when you apply for corporate communication position.