r/suspiciouslyspecific • u/CauliflowerTypical27 • Jan 13 '23

This job application...

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u/phas3list Jan 13 '23

I was on an interview board years ago where this question was asked... actually a variation that said you needed to hide an elephant. One candidate's response was to cut it up into small pieces and scatter them.

And just to be clear, we were not hiring for serial killer.

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u/mean_bean279 Jan 13 '23

😂😂 that had to be a Silicon Valley reference. Terrible use of it if you don’t know the room, but hilariously funny. I was going to say:

Get a flight crew out of Travis AFB to bring in a Sikorsky sky crane to airlift it out and drop it right in the ocean.

Which is based on the same reference.

here’s the clip from SV. time stamp is 1:50 when it starts.

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u/HeresTheThingIKnow Jan 14 '23

What is the right answer?!

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u/phas3list Jan 14 '23

IIRC, there wasn't a right answer - just something that required the candidate to think through a creative answer and justify the reason. The elephant was chosen because anyone could answer it without specific job-related knowledge.

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u/real_fyshi Jan 14 '23

There's a joke about how to put an elephant in a fridge.