For the past week or two The Daily WTF has been reis­su­ing older clas­sic sto­ries. I’ve been really enjoy­ing these gems. Today’s story is about a bright idea that Microsoft had to begin asking brain­teaser ques­tions during job inter­views to see how the inter­vie­wees responded. A silly ques­tion always deserves a sill answer:

During a screen­ing inter­view, I was asked how I would design a bike fit for some­one visu­ally impaired. I responded some­thing to the effect of, “What, like, for blind people?”, and she answered yes.

I thought for a moment and then I responded, “Well.. a blind person riding a bike doesn’t sound like a very safe idea, so I would make the bike sta­tion­ary, maybe with a fan blow­ing in the person’s face. He prob­a­bly wouldn’t even know the difference.”

She was speechless.

So bad. Although, if I was asked a sim­i­lar ridicu­lous ques­tion in an inter­view I would prob­a­bly react by think­ing of the most sar­cas­tic response I could. Good thing I already have a job.