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by tobr·1y ago·view on hn ↗
To save you the click and skim, the question is:

> ”How fat is Kim Jong Un?”

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A legitimate answer could be "who?"

I played a game of Taboo (a party game) yesterday night. I asked the question "the surname of the leader of party ..." (the third largest one in my country). The guy I asked it to looked at me and answered "I have no idea." He's old enough to vote even if he didn't have to do it yet. Leaders of foreign countries? Maybe he doesn't know where to place North Korea on a map, even the general area.

OK, we could say that the lack of a general culture could be a hint not to hire that person so that could be a legitimate termination of the interview anyway.

Culture fit questions everywhere. Wouldn’t want to hire someone of the wrong social class. They might “shoot hoops” or something similarly vulgar.
That would be a good answer. But they are very poor at this game and can’t answer basic challenges gracefully.

They do seem to be decent programmers though based on my experience with these scam interviews.

> ”How fat is Dear Leader?”

6'4 - 210lbs

If they can say the line with a straight face they are either an incredible poker player or the wrong kind of American.

I wonder what the American version of this question would be
i would think some of our taboo words that a re borderline illegal and I am scared to even type the first letter of with asterixes because i am on a work computer
According to Perplexity, he is 308 pounds! Wow!