Bizarre question Jeff Bezos always asked during Amazon job interviews

Job interviews are usually pretty stressful experiences but being asked a bizarre question by one of the world's richest men is enough to make anyone panic.

Jeff Bezos, known best for founding Amazon in his garage in 1994, reportedly used to ask anyone interviewing for one of the senior positions at the global company the same strange question.

The 61-year-old certainly has some unusual methods when it comes to bringing new people in, as he once hired an employee after he was impressed with her answers to just two of his questions.

All these CEOs will have their own little tests to see if you're worthy or not, with one executive even seemingly refusing to hire those who don't take an empty cup back into the kitchen after finishing it.

While we're all used to being asked about our experience and people skills and where we see ourselves in five years time, one thing we perhaps don't expect to discuss in an interview is luck.

But according to Dan Rose, who was an executive at Amazon for six years before becoming VP at Facebook - an impressive CV, by the way - Bezos used to ask potential employees if they were 'a lucky person'.

On Twitter, Rose wrote: "When I worked at Amazon 1999-2006, Jeff Bezos' favourite interview question was 'Are you a lucky person?' What a great way to filter for optimists and people who manifest success.

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"If you're a successful, optimistic, humble leader, the right answer starts this way: 'Yes, I'm the luckiest person on earth. I've worked hard to get to this point in my career, but a lot of things also had to go right, and I've taken full advantage of my luck.''

So, even if you've had a bird s*** on your suit before your interview (is that good luck or bad luck?) it seems Bezos would only take yes for an answer in this case.

Rose added: "Perceiving yourself as lucky is a good proxy for optimism. Humility is also important, and it's easy to filter out false humility ('humble brags') in follow-up questions.

Bezos and his fiance Lauren Sanchez, who went to space last month (Emma McIntyre/WireImage)

"This isn't the only question, it's a conversation starter and opens to door to exposing someone's personality beyond their resume."

If you suggest that you've never been lucky, or that you don't need luck since you're so smart then unlucky, because you're not getting that job at Amazon.

Bezos stepped down as Amazon CEO back in 2021, so if you're thinking of applying, you might need to prep for some different questions just in case the one about luck doesn't come up.