# Your cockiest job interview answer? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 6, 2007, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cockiest-job-interview-answer/421717 "2007-10-06T01:23:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cockiest-job-interview-answer/421717/41 "2007-10-08T17:41:21Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] I might as well have said “Eating Cheetos and masturbating.” That was actually closer to the truth. On one interview, however, I decided to tell the truth in a cocky and well-framed way. “I conducted three operas.” [/QUOTE] With your dick as a baton? Didn’t the Cheetos leave it all orangy? Anyhoo, I always play it very straight in interviews and have nothing of substance to add. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cockiest-job-interview-answer/421717/42 "2007-10-08T17:51:29Z")
I went into a job interview for a tech support position with a big agency. During the interview I casually mentioned that I was interested in the job because my friend (who worked in a division of this agency) mentioned that the tech people at the main office didn’t know what they were doing. Of course the person interviewing me…was in charge of tech support… Needless to say I didn’t get the job and my friend got even worse tech support from then on. DOH! ---
**Author:** ![Aguecheek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Aguecheek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aguecheek)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cockiest-job-interview-answer/421717/43 "2007-10-08T17:51:59Z")
“What do you look for in a boss?” “I’d like a boss that I can tell to go to hell if I feel that the situation warrants it.” Hired. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cockiest-job-interview-answer/421717/44 "2007-10-08T18:30:55Z")
I interviewed at a timeshare place that had in its waiting room lots of pics and/or posters plastered around about how much George Bush 41 and/or Ronald Reagan were their idols/were intimately connected with the owners (it’s been so long I forgot the details.) I interrupted them once when they were asking a question: Them: “So, if you were Al Gore and were inventing the Internet…” Me: “…you mean the Internet **s**.” Hey, you gotta have equal time 🙂 (My actual response was if I were inventing the Internet from scratch, I’d retool sendmail to better weed out spam.) ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cockiest-job-interview-answer/421717/45 "2007-10-08T18:33:47Z")
Not so much a job interview as a conversation with a smarmy head hunter type over the phone: Head hunter: “My client is looking for someone who can walk on water.” Me: “Well I can’t do that. But I can turn it into wine before I fall in.” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cockiest-job-interview-answer/421717/46 "2007-10-08T18:56:03Z")
Someone I know who was collecting unemployment and didn’t want to get hired: Interviewer:What is your greatest Weakness? Wiseass: I don’t like working with _those_ people. (Long Pause) You don’t have any of _those_ people working here, do you? I: What do you mean? W: You know (Leans in, looks all around, lowers voice): _Those_ people. He stayed on unemployment for six months. ---
**Author:** ![Boggette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@Boggette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boggette)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cockiest-job-interview-answer/421717/47 "2007-10-08T19:58:02Z")
My favorite answer that usually gets a laugh… “Well… If a computer had legs, I could make it dance a jig.” ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cockiest-job-interview-answer/421717/48 "2007-10-08T21:07:32Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] W: You know (Leans in, looks all around, lowers voice): _Those_ people. [/QUOTE] I like that. Because it could be ANYONE, but the interviewer will fill in the blanks with their own assumptions which you can then deny and replace with something insane like. _“Goddamned gingers…I hates them!”_ ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cockiest-job-interview-answer/421717/49 "2007-10-08T22:05:44Z")
When I interviewed for my first game industry job (in tech support), they asked me beforehand to prepare a one page list of all the games I had ever played. When that question came up, I handed over a page densely covered in 8 point Arial Narrow print, with narrow margins, and broken down into platforms. I got the job. (Well, that wasn’t the only reason, but it helped.) ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cockiest-job-interview-answer/421717/50 "2007-10-08T23:39:57Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] I might as well have said “I conducted three operas.” That was actually closer to the truth. On one interview, however, I decided to tell the truth in a cocky and well-framed way. “Eating Cheetos and masturbating.” I got the offer later that day. [/QUOTE] Just testing that out, to see which was more/less impressive 😉 In a tedious questions-from-sheet interview, I got ‘tell me about the last book you read’. So I waffled about _Foucault’s Pendulum_ for a short while. Clearly, the writer of the set questions thought they’d catch people out by asking ‘what did you read before that?’ Ummmm, _Foucault’s Pendulum_. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cockiest-job-interview-answer/421717/51 "2007-10-08T23:45:57Z")
Oh, one more, when asked anything I’d noticed about the music store which could be improved, I pointed out that many of the labels in the Classical section were spelt incorrectly, and that ‘Vaughan-Williams’ doesn’t go under W. I don’t think they expected that from a spotty 16-year-old looking for (and getting) a Saturday job. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cockiest-job-interview-answer/421717.md?page=2)