What’s the most random thing you were asked in a tech interview?
Tech interviews can get weird sometimes.
Not necessarily the hardest question, but the most random / unexpected thing you were asked.
Could be a coding prompt, system design scenario, behavioral question, brain teaser, recruiter question, or anything that made you think: “wait, why are we talking about this?”
I’ve seen people mention things like debugging a tiny state machine, designing a parking lot for no clear reason, explaining a side project from 5 years ago, or getting asked a behavioral question that felt way more intense than the technical round.
What was yours?
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I once got asked to implement LRU cache. Pretty normal, until the follow-up was: “Now imagine every cache entry has emotions and refuses to be evicted if it feels important.” Still not sure if that was OOD or therapy.
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