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193. Stupid interview questions

193. Stupid interview questions

Update: 2025-12-15
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We roast filler TV, then discover that “stupid” interview questions can reveal real judgment, curiosity and systems thinking. Fast riffs, real signals, and a few traps worth dodging.

• filler vs substance across anime and long-running TV
• appliance question as a proxy for work style
• estimation puzzles as a reasoning display
• survival in a conference room as constraint testing
• animal challenge mapped to role traits and nuance
• encoding a phone number without digits as creative constraints
• alien-on-the-team as an AI trap question
• pancake stacks as risk and failure-mode thinking
• motivation beyond email and noise

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193. Stupid interview questions

193. Stupid interview questions

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