Renée (pictured) walks us through a tough one:
“We like brain puzzles here. Do you like brain puzzles?”
I can’t think of anything I like less, sir.
He begins. “Get out some paper.”
“You have 22 socks in a drawer. Half are red, half are green. If you are choosing them randomly, how long before you have a pair?”
The answer is three, of course. And I come to that eventually, though not before I am done administering fractional half-lives and pension plans for each individual sock.
“Simple thinking is the virtue of the unimaginative!” I say, losing.
You see, she’s too creative a thinker for her own good. Read on for more brain puzzles and whimsy.
Previously:
 walks us through a tough one: “We like brain puzzles here. Do you like brain puzzles?” I can’t think of anything I like less, sir. He begins. “Get out some paper.” “You have 22 socks in a drawer. Half are red, half are green. If you are choosing them randomly, how long before […]</p>
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“. . . how long before you have a pair?”
The answer is two, you’ll have a pair of socks after picking out two. They may not be the same color but that wasn’t asked.
Brain teaser interview questions are a waste of time on the surface, but really it’s more of an excuse to chat with a candidate to see if they’re a decent person and/or at least pretend to give a shit.
Sounds like Renee failed at that last part.
*yawn*