I’ve just read through an off-topic thread in the SMS/SCCM mailing list on MyITforum, and thought about some of the interviews that I’ve participated in over the past few years (both where I was the interview-er, as well as the interview-ee).

I thought this would bring up a good topic for discussion outside the thread, so here goes:

What is the most interesting question you’ve either asked or been asked in a job interview?

As an answer from me, as the interview-er, I have asked the following:

• So what do you want to do when you grow up?
• Explain your job to a 4 year old.

As the interview-ee, I’ve been asked questions like:

• If one day, you have what appears to be a perfectly running SMS environment, then the next day you come in and all of your collections are empty, and after a collection refresh, they’re all empty, what do you do?

So, come on, what are some of the questions?  I thought this might make for some useful insight and all questions are welcome!  As far as the answers go, I’ll leave it up to you as to if they’re posted or not. 

The technical question above that I was asked was where the person conducting the interview had experienced this in the past, and was looking for a specific answer (corrupt DDR).  However, he was quite impressed when I walked through the troubleshooting aspects to figure out what was going on, and therefore provided positive feedback for the interview.