Haha this reminds me of an old Microsoft interview technique I read about a while back (2 years ago?). I don't think they do it anymore because, well, it's a little odd.
Basically the candidate would state something that was pretty obvious at some point in the interview and then the interviewer would say that he was wrong. The idea here was obviously to see whether the candidate had "the balls" to confront someone who basically has more authority here and tell him that he, in fact, was the one who was incorrect. From what I remember the reasoning was that in real life, you're often in a position where you have to convince someone higher up than you that they're incorrect and here is why.
I just tried googling for the story for a few minutes but couldn't find it :(
Basically the candidate would state something that was pretty obvious at some point in the interview and then the interviewer would say that he was wrong. The idea here was obviously to see whether the candidate had "the balls" to confront someone who basically has more authority here and tell him that he, in fact, was the one who was incorrect. From what I remember the reasoning was that in real life, you're often in a position where you have to convince someone higher up than you that they're incorrect and here is why.
I just tried googling for the story for a few minutes but couldn't find it :(