All joking aside (hah, hah) if they insisted on hearing a joke, I'd probably tell this one just to keep things moving along:
An electrical engineer, a mechanical engineer, and a Microsoft software engineer were in a car driving to a conference together. Going down a hill, the brakes went out and the car crashed into a tree at the bottom. Luckily no one was hurt, so they get out and start trying to figure out what happened. The mechanical engineer says "I think a brake line was over-pressured and burst, letting all the brake fluid out and that's what caused the brakes to fail." The electrical engineer thinks for a minute and says "No, it was probably a short-circuit in the anti-lock braking system." The Microsoft guy doesn't say anything for a minute, so one of them asks him what he thinks. He says "I don't know, but let's push the car back to the top of the hill and try again."
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I will def remember that one for future interviews
All joking aside (hah, hah) if they insisted on hearing a joke, I'd probably tell this one just to keep things moving along:
An electrical engineer, a mechanical engineer, and a Microsoft software engineer were in a car driving to a conference together. Going down a hill, the brakes went out and the car crashed into a tree at the bottom. Luckily no one was hurt, so they get out and start trying to figure out what happened. The mechanical engineer says "I think a brake line was over-pressured and burst, letting all the brake fluid out and that's what caused the brakes to fail." The electrical engineer thinks for a minute and says "No, it was probably a short-circuit in the anti-lock braking system." The Microsoft guy doesn't say anything for a minute, so one of them asks him what he thinks. He says "I don't know, but let's push the car back to the top of the hill and try again."