Programmer's conundrums

In article <44307ACB.1090607 at pacbell.net>, Jim Battle <frustum at pacbell.net> writes: Microsoft, and companies that aspire to be Microsoft by imitating everything they do, has a tendency to ask "brain teaser" questions on job interviews. Personally I always thought this was a stupid way to evaluate an employee. I've yet to see any explanation of why this is something that Microsoft does, but I'm sure they have one. I've been asked those questions and I always thought to myself "uh... yeah, this doesn't reflect anything I do as a software engineer, it just reflects whether or not I "get" this little mind teaser trick". Once it was Microsoft, so I expected this. The other time it was a game company. Although I don't know why they bothered with the mind teaser since it seems all they cared about were cheap bodies who spent their free time playing video games anyway. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline"-- code samples, sample chapter, FAQ: <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/> Pilgrimage: Utah's annual demoparty <http://pilgrimage.scene.org>