[jghn]

"Remember doing interview prep at the time by trying to memorize the answers to a bunch of these puzzles. "

I remember bumping into a friend on the subway, he was coming back from an interview. We were trying to work out some cockamamie puzzle involving barnyard animals crossing the river. He felt he got it right, but one of the interviewers grilled him.

When I got home I googled the problem and found out there was a generally accepted answer that was wrong. And that's what the interviewer was pushing. My friend had arrived at the correct answer.

And he didn't get the job.

[ngc248]

Ah the crossing the river puzzle, got that during my campus interviews.