“What happens when you type Google.com into your browser and press enter?”
Love it! One of my favourite bad interview questions. I got asked this in an interview ~5 years ago. My response was to look shocked... Pause. Then ask: "What do you mean? What detail do you need? DNS? SYN / ACK? HTTP?"<p>At the point I started talking about syn/acks they just cut me off and moved on to the next question.<p>Same company (different person) started the phone screen with 'oh so your CV says you know linux, what's the difference between a hard link and a soft link' and was shocked when I knew the answer, declaring the rest of the phone interview pretty pointless - he'd obviously had a bad morning and started with his hardest question.<p>I've now learnt to see such interview questions as a sign of a workplace with little-to-no learning on the job. Most places that <i>actively</i> encourage learning don't try such things.