Killer Interview Question: Will You Drive My Car To Lunch?

Another addition parks itself in our collection of killer interview questions, and it’s a doozy: Will you drive my car to lunch?

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Ron Kaplan, CEO of deck manufacturer Tex, says that he regularly invites out-of-town candidates who have flown in to a lunch interview, and then suggests they drive his car. That’s designed to test two aspects: whether they have the confidence to drive in an unfamiliar city, and whether they can handle being peppered with questions while driving.

Obviously this is a harder trick to pull off if you’re in a CBD office and don’t drive to work, but it’s an interesting challenge. One problem: if you have a manual car, that’s going to throw off some people.

Ron Kaplan of Trex [New York Times via Business Insider]


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