Revealed: 20 of the toughest interview questions you could face

Candidates have revealed the most difficult interview questions they have ever faced, including ‘What am I thinking right now?’ and ‘How would your enemy describe you?’

Preparation is vital ahead an interview, but no amount of planning would likely help you answer some of these bamboozling questions.

The list was released by jobs website Glassdoor, who have analysed tens of thousands of interview questions shared by UK job candidates in the past year.

More challenging interviews are associated with higher employee satisfaction later on, Glassdoor added.

Could you answer the toughest interview questions? Here are the top 20.

1. “What on your CV is the closest thing to a lie?” —Marketing and Communications Employee, The Phoenix Partnership 

2. “What am I thinking right now?” —Regional Director, TES Global

3. “How would your enemy describe you?”—Advertising Sales Grad Scheme, Condé Nast

4. “If you had a friend who was great for a job and an identical person who was just as good, but your friend earned you £2,000 less, who would you give the job to?” —Associate Recruitment Consultant, Hays plc

5. “What’s the most selfish thing you’ve ever done?” —Graduate Consultant, PageGroup

6. “You are stranded on the moon with a group of other astronauts and you need to travel 200 miles back to base, here is a list of 15 items salvaged from the wreckage of the spacecraft you were travelling in. List them in order of importance.” —Sales Employee, Turnstone Sales 

7. “If your best friend was here what advice would he give you?” —CCP, American Express

8. “Describe your biggest weakness. Then describe another.” —Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Palantir Technologies

9. “How do you cope with repetition?” —Product Specialist, Tesla Motors

10. “How would you describe cloud computing to a 7 year old?”—Graduate Scheme, Microsoft

11. “There are three people, each with different salaries, and they want to find the average of them without telling any of the other two their salary. How do they do it?”—Technical Delivery Graduate, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence

12. “Who is your hero, and why?” —Product Quality Employee, GE

13. “What’s your the biggest regret managing people so far?” —Area Director, Regus

14. “What would you ask the CEO if you met him one day?” —Performance Analyst, British Airways

15. “You have 50 red and 50 blue objects.  Split these however you like between two containers to give the minimum/maximum probability of drawing one of the colours.” —Operations Analyst, Clearwater Analytics

16. “What does social justice mean to you?” —Content Marketing Manager, ThoughtWorks

17. “What is your coping mechanism when you have a bad day?”—Consultant, Switch Consulting

18. “Are you a nice guy?” —Product Manager, Badoo

19. “Provide an estimate for the number of goals in the premier league.” —Management Accountant, VAX

20. “Tell me about your childhood.” —Learning and Development Employee, Next