[PaulRivers]

"Whenever I've had a whiteboard programming interview, it's always been a trivial problem"

I've had a few, and it's never trivial problems. Here's a trivial problem: - Write a method that takes 2 parameters - an Integer, and a list of Integers - and return a boolean indicating if the int param is in the list of Integers.

Instead of something actually simple like that, it's trick questions designed to appeal to the interviewers desire to appear smart and clever.