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by zellyn 4368 days ago
Disagree: it's a terrible question. The answer (all of them) is something you either see or don't, and neither tells you much more than one bit of information about the candidate.
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I'm not convinced; it at least tells you if the interviewee will rush to an answer that appears correct and say "All of them", or if they'll consider it a little more carefully and say "The rest of them". Or if they'll ask for a strict definition of what it means to pass a chair on the way up, to clarify whether or not you count the chair that you're riding on as one that you pass.
I don't think he meant in terms of an interview question, just a good puzzle.