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Careers website Glassdoor put together the list by searching through the hundreds of thousands of interview questions that candidates had shared on their website in the last year.

These are the 20 hardest interview questions you might be asked I personally LIKE Number 14

Preparing for a job interview can be a tough task, especially when you have no idea what interview questions the company might ask.

Sure, you can brush up on the company history and prepare your ideas for what you'd bring to the role but how can you prep for guessing what the interviewer might be thinking at that exact time?

Or know if you might be presented with a riddle that needs solving?

Preparing for an interview thoroughly means being ready for anything, even a question not directly related to the job. Remember, it's not necessarily about getting the right answer, more how you cope under pressure.

These are just a couple of examples of the 20 most difficult job interview questions that potential employees have been asked

====> But don't be too afraid - you won't be making a mistake if you don't get the right answer <===

Read up on some of these tough questions to prepare yourself if you have a job interview coming up... The questions and the type position follow

1. "What on your CV/Resume is the closest thing to a lie?" – Marketing and Communications Position

2. "What am I thinking right now?" – Regional Director Position

3. "How would your enemy describe you?" – Advertising Sales Position

4. "If you had a friend who was great for a job and an identical person who was just as good, but your friend earned you $2,000 less, who would you give the job to?" – Associate Recruitment Consultant

5. "What's the most selfish thing you've ever done?" – Graduate Consultant

6. "You are stranded on the moon with a group of other astronauts and you need to travel 200 miles back to base, here is a list of 15 items salvaged from the wreckage of the spacecraft you were travelling in. List them in order of importance." – Sales Employee

7. "If your best friend was here what advice would he give you?" – Major Credit Card Position

8. "Describe your biggest weakness. Then describe another." – Software Engineer

9. "How do you cope with repetition?" – Product Specialist, Auto Company

10. "How would you describe cloud computing to a seven-year old?" – Major Major Major Software Co.

11. "There are three people, each with different salaries, and they want to find the average of them without telling any of the other two their salary. How do they do it?" – Technical Delivery position

12. "Who is your hero, and why?" – Product Quality position

13. "What's your the biggest regret managing people so far?" – Area Director Position

14. "What would you ask the CEO if you met him one day?" – Performance Analyst Position

15. "You have 50 red and 50 blue objects. Split these however you like between two containers to give the minimum/maximum probability of drawing one of the colours." – Operations Analyst Position

16. "What does social justice mean to you?" – Content Marketing Manager

17. "What is your coping mechanism when you have a bad day?" – Consultant Position

18. "Are you a nice guy?" – Product Manager Position

19. "Provide an estimate for the number of goals in the premier league." – Management Accountant

20. "Tell me about your childhood." – Learning and Development Position