
Cuban didn't know it was a trick question, so he answered it honestly, stumbling into the correct answer.

The question was designed to gauge a job candidate's confidence level - to see if they'd freeze, refuse to admit they didn't know something, or swallow their pride and seek out an answer right in front of a customer. "After who knows how long, I blurted out that, 'I would look it up in the manual and find the answer for them,'" Cuban wrote. Send us feedback.The interviewers weren't impressed, Cuban wrote, until he answered one question: "What do you do if a customer has a question about a software package and you don't know the answer?"Īs Cuban recounted, there was a long pause. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'question mark.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2022 Shaquille Leonard has been dealing with a back injury and is still a question mark for the game. 2022 So in totality, each of the components is aging and failing, and the reliability of service in each component is now a question mark. 2022 Penn State’s rushing defense is a question mark, but the Lions are going to load the box and play man and dare Auburn quarterback TJ Finley to throw. Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. Natalie Andrews, WSJ, 13 June 2022 Right-hander Adbert Alzolay remains a question mark for helping the Cubs in the next four weeks. Oregonlive, 22 June 2022 The cost of the bill is also a question mark, with estimates from lawmakers in the billions of dollars but no hard figures. 2022 The two-time Wimbledon champion is attempting to win his third consecutive Grand Slam tournament, but his foot is a question mark.Ĭhris Lehourites, ajc, 28 June 2022 The compensation Detroit sought for his services was largely a question mark until Wednesday.

Recent Examples on the Web The quarterback situation, which has been question mark at UConn since the days of Dan Orlovsky, has been as muddled going into this season as ever.ĭom Amore, Hartford Courant, 28 Aug.
