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stevenehrbarInterview questions, swiped from Undauntra
1. At the local grocer, you see an elderly woman shoplift bacon. Do you tell the grocer?
Answer: Yes.
2. Your name sounds foreign and is difficult to pronounce. Your clients and superiors are always stumbling over it. Do you change it?
Answer: I haven't abandoned Ehrbar yet . . .
3. You need one number to win the jackpot at BINGO. The stranger beside you also needs one number and its been called. Do you tell her?
Answer: Probably.
4. You're cramming for a critical exam. Classmates are circulating a stolen advance copy of the test. Do you take one?
Answer: Hell no. And the professor will get an anonymous note about the fact that the exam has been stolen.
5. Your spouse has become nervous wreck since he/she began day trading on the Internet. But he/she made $10K in a month. Do you make him/her stop?
Answer: I don't make my loved ones do anything.
6. The house of your dreams finally goes up for sale. You take a tour of the home with it's soon to be former occupant, an elderly woman who's moving into a retirement home. When she quotes you the asking price, it is far below what you know the house is really worth. Do you accept her asking price or offer her more?
Answer: Huh? Objects do not have value except in relation to personal assessments. It isn't "worth" anything intrinsically. If the low price is all she wants, then paying that is perfectly fair.
7. You are on a safari with your bestest friend in the whole world and your mom/dad. While walking through the jungle, you all take a tumble over a hole in the ground. Your companions fall in while you fall just past it. In the hole is a nest of vipers that bite your companions. You are carrying the anti-venom but after the fall discover that all but one vial has been smashed. After pulling them both to freedom, who do you give the anti-venom to?
Answer: Fortunately, Mom and the bestest friend are the same person, so there's enough anti-venom for both. (Yes, I'm not answering the question.)
8. You dream that friends die in a plane crash. The next day they announce a trip to Greece. Do you mention your dream?
Answer: No. Well, maybe as a joke, and only if they aren't believers in precognitive dreams.
9. Some friends are visiting you. You notice that one of your very valuable collectibles is missing. Do you search the coats and purses?
Answer: Um, no! This specified friends. If I didn't know they wouldn't steal my stuff, I wouldn't consider them friends. If I found out that it was stolen, they'd not only cease to be my friends, they'd be reported to the police.
10. You've just paid for groceries and the cashier is giving you your change. You notice that she's giving you far too much change. Do you ask her if she made a mistake?
Answer: Yes. This has actually happened to me.
11. You work at a bank and one evening discover that due to a clerical error, you could safely steal 1 million dollars from the bank and never get caught. Would you do it? What if you would never get caught but another coworker would be blamed?
Answer: Well, the question specifies 100% certainty of never being caught. That means nobody will ever notice it is missing, since otherwise the fact that I depositied $1 million in my bank account would not immediately be connected. Which means, for all practical purposes, whomever it "belonged" to doesn't have it anymore and will never care they don't have it. So, yeah, under these highly artificial, literally impossible circumstances, I'd take it.
12. In order to win 1 million dollars, you are told to walk stark naked down a city sidewalk for one block. No one would harm you and you could hop into a waiting limousine at the other end. Would you do it?
Answer: Yes, of course.
13. You are told that if you leave the country, taking only one other person with you, you will both be well taken cared of but you could never return. Would you do it?
14. If by cutting off your pinky you could stop all wars, now and future, would you? What about your thumb?
Answer: No. Now, if I could eliminate all injustices and irrationality (by my meanings of the terms injustice and irrationality) that cause war, sure.
15. Would you rather have a simple and predictable life, dying among friends and family, or a dramatic life with major ups and downs, dying alone in an empty apartment?
Answer: Forget they dying bit. Simple and predictable.
16. If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt anyone you chose, would you?
Answer: Yes.
17. Would you accept twenty years of extraordinary happiness and fulfillment if it meant you would die at the end of the period?
Answer: Yes.
18. You have the chance to meet someone with whom you can have the most satisfying love imaginable, the stuff of dreams. Sadly, you know that in six months the person will die. Knowing the pain that would follow, would you still want to meet the person and fall in love?
Answer: Yes.
19. Would you rather be extremely successful professionally and have a tolerable yet unexciting private life, or have an extremely happy private life and only a tolerable and uninspiring professional life?
Answer: The latter.
20. If a new medicine were developed that would cure cancer but cause a fatal reaction in 1 percent of those who took it, would you want it to be released to the public?
Answer: Up that percentage to 99% and I'd still support release. A free person has the right to make up his own mind on whether the risk is worth it, period. I am not your mother.
21. You're invited to a cocktail party that turns into an in-the-buff pool party. Friends and strangers are present. Do you skinny-dip, too?
Answer: Yes.
22. If you knew that by killing one person, all world hunger would instantly end, would you? What if the person was a horrible murderer? What if the person was an innocent child?
Answer: Maybe, yes, no.
23. If, for the next year, you could have the free services of a maid, a chauffeur, a gardner, a masseuse, or a chef, who would you pick and why?
24. If you could pick the sex of your child, would you?
Answer: Yes.
25. To win 1 million dollars, you and your partner could not have sex with each other for a month, would you? What about 10 million for 3 months? 100 million for 6 months?
Answer: Me and what partner? Sure, six months without sex for $100 million is fine.
1. At the local grocer, you see an elderly woman shoplift bacon. Do you tell the grocer?
Answer: Yes.
2. Your name sounds foreign and is difficult to pronounce. Your clients and superiors are always stumbling over it. Do you change it?
Answer: I haven't abandoned Ehrbar yet . . .
3. You need one number to win the jackpot at BINGO. The stranger beside you also needs one number and its been called. Do you tell her?
Answer: Probably.
4. You're cramming for a critical exam. Classmates are circulating a stolen advance copy of the test. Do you take one?
Answer: Hell no. And the professor will get an anonymous note about the fact that the exam has been stolen.
5. Your spouse has become nervous wreck since he/she began day trading on the Internet. But he/she made $10K in a month. Do you make him/her stop?
Answer: I don't make my loved ones do anything.
6. The house of your dreams finally goes up for sale. You take a tour of the home with it's soon to be former occupant, an elderly woman who's moving into a retirement home. When she quotes you the asking price, it is far below what you know the house is really worth. Do you accept her asking price or offer her more?
Answer: Huh? Objects do not have value except in relation to personal assessments. It isn't "worth" anything intrinsically. If the low price is all she wants, then paying that is perfectly fair.
7. You are on a safari with your bestest friend in the whole world and your mom/dad. While walking through the jungle, you all take a tumble over a hole in the ground. Your companions fall in while you fall just past it. In the hole is a nest of vipers that bite your companions. You are carrying the anti-venom but after the fall discover that all but one vial has been smashed. After pulling them both to freedom, who do you give the anti-venom to?
Answer: Fortunately, Mom and the bestest friend are the same person, so there's enough anti-venom for both. (Yes, I'm not answering the question.)
8. You dream that friends die in a plane crash. The next day they announce a trip to Greece. Do you mention your dream?
Answer: No. Well, maybe as a joke, and only if they aren't believers in precognitive dreams.
9. Some friends are visiting you. You notice that one of your very valuable collectibles is missing. Do you search the coats and purses?
Answer: Um, no! This specified friends. If I didn't know they wouldn't steal my stuff, I wouldn't consider them friends. If I found out that it was stolen, they'd not only cease to be my friends, they'd be reported to the police.
10. You've just paid for groceries and the cashier is giving you your change. You notice that she's giving you far too much change. Do you ask her if she made a mistake?
Answer: Yes. This has actually happened to me.
11. You work at a bank and one evening discover that due to a clerical error, you could safely steal 1 million dollars from the bank and never get caught. Would you do it? What if you would never get caught but another coworker would be blamed?
Answer: Well, the question specifies 100% certainty of never being caught. That means nobody will ever notice it is missing, since otherwise the fact that I depositied $1 million in my bank account would not immediately be connected. Which means, for all practical purposes, whomever it "belonged" to doesn't have it anymore and will never care they don't have it. So, yeah, under these highly artificial, literally impossible circumstances, I'd take it.
12. In order to win 1 million dollars, you are told to walk stark naked down a city sidewalk for one block. No one would harm you and you could hop into a waiting limousine at the other end. Would you do it?
Answer: Yes, of course.
13. You are told that if you leave the country, taking only one other person with you, you will both be well taken cared of but you could never return. Would you do it?
14. If by cutting off your pinky you could stop all wars, now and future, would you? What about your thumb?
Answer: No. Now, if I could eliminate all injustices and irrationality (by my meanings of the terms injustice and irrationality) that cause war, sure.
15. Would you rather have a simple and predictable life, dying among friends and family, or a dramatic life with major ups and downs, dying alone in an empty apartment?
Answer: Forget they dying bit. Simple and predictable.
16. If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt anyone you chose, would you?
Answer: Yes.
17. Would you accept twenty years of extraordinary happiness and fulfillment if it meant you would die at the end of the period?
Answer: Yes.
18. You have the chance to meet someone with whom you can have the most satisfying love imaginable, the stuff of dreams. Sadly, you know that in six months the person will die. Knowing the pain that would follow, would you still want to meet the person and fall in love?
Answer: Yes.
19. Would you rather be extremely successful professionally and have a tolerable yet unexciting private life, or have an extremely happy private life and only a tolerable and uninspiring professional life?
Answer: The latter.
20. If a new medicine were developed that would cure cancer but cause a fatal reaction in 1 percent of those who took it, would you want it to be released to the public?
Answer: Up that percentage to 99% and I'd still support release. A free person has the right to make up his own mind on whether the risk is worth it, period. I am not your mother.
21. You're invited to a cocktail party that turns into an in-the-buff pool party. Friends and strangers are present. Do you skinny-dip, too?
Answer: Yes.
22. If you knew that by killing one person, all world hunger would instantly end, would you? What if the person was a horrible murderer? What if the person was an innocent child?
Answer: Maybe, yes, no.
23. If, for the next year, you could have the free services of a maid, a chauffeur, a gardner, a masseuse, or a chef, who would you pick and why?
24. If you could pick the sex of your child, would you?
Answer: Yes.
25. To win 1 million dollars, you and your partner could not have sex with each other for a month, would you? What about 10 million for 3 months? 100 million for 6 months?
Answer: Me and what partner? Sure, six months without sex for $100 million is fine.
