Interviewing for a job is like dating. You're supposed to be on best behavior. The odd ball questions have been compiled by a jobs and career community, Glassdoor. Glassdoor is the US employment website which was year after year compiling a set of odd ball questions set in, during interviews by major global technology corporate. The questions mainly posed by the interviewer are to ease the candidate and to look at the presence of mind quotient of the job seeker.

How many people are using Facebook in San Francisco at 2:30pm on a Friday?” – Asked at Google, dominated this year's list of the 25 most oddball questions. This one is sure to topple you from your comfort zone.

But this question with an Indian background asked during an interview at Deloitte, is worth a note. The question is ` would Mahatma Gandhi have made a good software engineer?’

According to Glassdoor, while technology companies included questions designed to catch candidates off guard, they also posed tried and tested queries like 'Why did you apply for this job?' and 'What are your strengths and weaknesses?' The questions help in testing the best preparedness of the candidates, who are hoping to work for the top tech firms. "But more importantly, they're trying to get at how someone thinks, how they solve the problem."

Some of the odd ball questions are given below: for reader enrichment.

1.    “If Germans were the tallest people in the world, how would you prove it?” posed by Hewlett-Packard.

2.    “Given 20 ‘destructible’ light bulbs (which breaks at certain height), and a building with 100 floors, how do you determine the height that the light bulb breaks?” posed by QUALCOMM

3.    “How many planes are currently flying over Kansas?” another one by Best Buy

4.    “How do you feel about those jokers at Congress?” asked by Consolidated Electrical

5.    “How would you get an elephant into a refrigerator?” asked by Horizon Group Properties.