7. IBM asked for a software engineer position: How do you weigh an elephant without using a weigh machine? - A question beyond the reach of a software engineer to even attempt to answer it. 8. Rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 10 how weird you are - asked at Capital One and the candidate wonders what would be the weirdness of this question. 9. Amazon asked to a managerial position - If you had 5,623 participants in a tournament, how many games would need to be played to determine the winner? - A question that leaves the candidates with no other options but to call it a quit.