With about five candidates for every job opening these days, some responsible for hiring decisions have resorted to desperate measures in their efforts to narrow the field. Researchers at career site Glassdoor.com culled through tens of thousands of queries reported by job seekers who had done their best to come up with answers on the spot, and selected the oddest interview ques! tions of the past 15 months.

美國平均每個職缺都有5個候選人想應徵，負責做出招募人員開始採用極端招數縮小候選人範圍。求才網站Glassdoor.com研究人員整理了上萬個由求職者提供的、曾在面試過程中絞盡腦汁試圖回答的問題，從中選出過去15個月最古怪的面試問題。

Luckily for beleaguered candidates, the interviewers seemed in most cases to be more interested in how people responded -- that is, in hearing their thought process, and seeing how well they kept their cool -- than in receiving a "correct" response. A sampling of Glassdoor's list, and where the question was asked:

求職者也不必太困擾，多數情況下面試官更感興趣的是求職者如何應對——即聽到他們的思考過程，以及他們是否能保持冷靜——而不是求職者能否給出"正確的"答案。下面是Glassdoor整理的一些古怪的面試問題以及提問的公司：

在數字1-1,000中，如果每猜一次，都告訴你是"太高"、還是"太低"。要猜中一個數字，起碼要猜幾次？ ——Facebook 
"Given the numbers 1 to 1,000, what is the minimum number of guesses needed to find a specific number, if you are given the hint 'higher' or 'lower' for each guess you make?” -- Facebook