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12 days agoDead serious question: I have only ever worked in the public sector (state level and local municipality) but often see or hear about these seemingly idiotic “interview questions” on television (and obviously memes).
Is this:
- just a meme
- just a joke
- an actual phenomenon in the private sector
If 3, what on earth is its purpose and what could the interviewer possibly find out about the applicant by asking this?
I’m calm.

I moaned louder than a procreating moose when I finally got it.
This only works because it’s a written/printed meme though, because we don’t say “ten” if were are not counting in base 10, we say “one zero base four”, which you further can specifify as 104 in written language.