Ray of Light wrote:

Senor Barborito wrote:

Some of the less technically-competent Caltropsers won't find much here besides trivia.

This is a recurring Slashdot theme. 1, 2. Note and enjoy sanctimonious comments from underemployed losers shocked, apalled by interviewers testing creative thinking.

Ray!

Poundstone does include some of these design questions and provides sample answers. But the "answer" to these questions is really the process involved: ask questions, state assumptions, propose design. That's all you need to know about them. If you are wondering why Microsoft did not use this logical procedure when confronted with the question "Design a response to the open source movement," but instead seems to have spouted off the first five things that popped into its collective head--that's just more proof that performance in interviews is not necessarily a great indicator of future job performance.