11 weird questions I was asked in interviews

[story orginally posted in DEV.to]

1. How much is 17x17?
   The answer is 289 and of course, I answered it wrong. However, the recruiter which asked this question mentioned that he did it to “check how I think” so I believe he would like to see me thinking that 17x17 is 17² which is (10 + 7)² which expands to 10² + 2x10x7 + 7² which equals 100 + 49 + 70x2 = 289.
   Pretty weird though.
2. Do you know how Shazam works?
   In layman’s terms, Shazam captures a sound sample of a song and then analyses it into a table of frequencies that the…