I’ve been reading “How Would You Move Mount Fuji: Microsoft’s Cult of the Puzzle” lately and have become interested in puzzle-like interview questions lately. I see some utility in them as an interviewer in that you can examine how someone breaks down a problem space to solve unfamiliar issues. However, personally, I would rather see someone answer more practically questions that require coding in an interview. So for me, these questions are just fun brain-teasers to see if I can come up with the “correct” answer. Sometimes I do, but most of the time I don’t; trying to get better at it.

Nonetheless, here are some sites that have compiled these types of questions:

http://www.sellsbrothers.com/fun/msiview/

http://www.softwareinterview.com/

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/012700-1.shtml

http://www.techinterview.org/