India, Nov. 18 -- A Reddit user sparked widespread amusement after sharing an unusual interview experience that he believes may have cost him the job. Describing the encounter on the platform, the candidate explained that the interviewer presented a strange prompt that completely caught him off guard.

Taking to Reddit, he wrote, "I swear, some interview prompts are just wild. So the interviewer leans back and goes: "Pretend I'm a 5-year-old. Teach me something in 5 minutes." And I'm sitting there like. ok so I just pulled up Google and said: "Here's how you find answers to literally anything." He laughed. but yeah, didn't get the job."

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