I also think it's likely that more of my neighbors have written dating profiles than sonnets, but I wonder what regions would have the opposite be true!
Almost none of the questions I've been asked during tech company interviews have been "sizing questions" (Lindsey Kuper pointed out that term to me after reading my post, and she's right, a sizing question is somewhat different from other sorts of puzzles and brainteasers, even though the general reason interviewers ask any of them is to hear you think aloud as you work to solve it and demonstrate your approach to this sort of question). The only interview I can remember that included a sizing question is the Fog Creek one in late 2005. I can't remember whether my interviewer asked about phone booths or something else -- stoplights? stop signs? -- but it was something where the physical geography of the city was my jumping-off point. I started reasoning about the number of street intersections in Manhattan and how often people needed that thing, and multiplying stuff out based on guesses of various kinds, thinking aloud when various numbers seemed too small or too big and refining my guesses, and so on. I'm pretty sure my interviewer didn't know the actual number. It must have been a good enough performance; I got passed along to the next interviewer, and then I was hired.
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Almost none of the questions I've been asked during tech company interviews have been "sizing questions" (Lindsey Kuper pointed out that term to me after reading my post, and she's right, a sizing question is somewhat different from other sorts of puzzles and brainteasers, even though the general reason interviewers ask any of them is to hear you think aloud as you work to solve it and demonstrate your approach to this sort of question). The only interview I can remember that included a sizing question is the Fog Creek one in late 2005. I can't remember whether my interviewer asked about phone booths or something else -- stoplights? stop signs? -- but it was something where the physical geography of the city was my jumping-off point. I started reasoning about the number of street intersections in Manhattan and how often people needed that thing, and multiplying stuff out based on guesses of various kinds, thinking aloud when various numbers seemed too small or too big and refining my guesses, and so on. I'm pretty sure my interviewer didn't know the actual number. It must have been a good enough performance; I got passed along to the next interviewer, and then I was hired.