“being asked a brainteaser in a job interview is a big warning”
The point of brain teasers, IMHO, is to evaluate one&#x27;s level of abstract thinking and not much else. It is supposed to make one feel uncomfortable - that&#x27;s mostly how one learns - because real life _will_ throw at one seemingly random problems and one has to know how to solve as best as one can. Maybe the problem here is _how_ the brain teaser is laid out to the person being interviewed. Maybe the problem here is not a (social) power dynamic but how one feels to be put into a situation where one has never experienced before _and_ their ability to successfully get out of it. Those situations are, by definition, uncomfortable. Would one act &quot;cold and calculated&quot; (have a plan or have experienced that before and knows how to solve that problem) or emotionally where they&#x27;d panic and &quot;run&quot; from it? Something like that.