Reddit Experience · 2025 Q3 · USA

I was asked the weirdest interview question today.

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Anyway, I was in an interview this morning, and the guy interviewing me suddenly asked: "If you could be any piece of furniture, what would you be and why? Honestly, I stared blankly for a few seconds

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Anyway, I was in an interview this morning, and the guy interviewing me suddenly asked: "If you could be any piece of furniture, what would you be and why? Honestly, I stared blankly for a few seconds. My brain completely froze. I went in prepared to talk about data analysis, not about my ambitions to be a cool bookshelf. Has anyone else been asked such a random question? Seriously, what do they even want to know with a question like that? I know these questions are just practice for quick thinking; they use them more to judge the speaker's personality, but from my point of view, they are 99% useless. The problem is that I spent long hours fixing my resume. I spent a long time watching [interview tips](https://youtu.be/7gtxvbqAg6I) to pass the interview, but all of this was useless. All I did was get shocked by the question, didn't know how to answer, and became flustered. So why do they make it so hard for us like this? All we want is a job to pay our bills.
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