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I saw this same post almost two years ago and here what u/primetime0146 answered

This is a riddle interviewers that can't think of their own questions ask. The answer is eat it one piece at a time. They're trying to ask what you would do with an enormous project you have and you don't  have a team to help. You effectively can't delegate the project to another team and you can't profit off of it so the burden is on you. So, in this question they want you to say something along the lines of slowly build the Elephants trust until the Elephant is a smaller, more manageable task.
gpt
The problem is that the answer ignores the fact that an elephant is a more specific problem than a problem. If it's in the U.S.A., then elephant meat is illegal. If eating the elephant is the intended answer, then the problem now becomes if the employee is willing to take the legal responsibility of breaking the law.

While that's good for the company, doing so is utterly stupid for the employee and thing to subject one's self to.