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Interviews and Answering Logic Questions

Forever · 2016-11-04 15:40:36

I went for an interview, and I had to do a logic test regarding 3 jars of jellybeans. I have a statistics degree, so I immediately set to solving it in this way, and got the answer right! However, one of the interviewers spluttered that no one ever gets this question right. On reflection after the interview, I got the…

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getmore4less Posts: 46,882 Forumite

8 November 2016 at 2:26PM

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Sometimes, that might be appropriate, but other times it could be useful to an interviewer to see how a person reacts - do they ask for help, do they give up etc. It's weird to give a question that "no-one ever gets right" though!

A good interviewer waits till an appropriate time, you soon get the feel for when that is if you do a decent amount of recruitment using the same basic questions.

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