How to Ace the Brainteaser Interview Paperback – September 13, 2004

Love the puzzle/questions. Very interesting read.

This is a great book and we give it to business advisors for 'ice breaker' ideas.

From the title of this book, you might expect that it would teach you techniques for coping with brainteaser questions. For the most part, it won't. Instead, what you'll find is a large collection of puzzles and their answers - but very little discussion of the PROCESS of solving brainteasers. Unless your plan is to memorize the contents of this book, and hope that an interviewer's question matches one of your canned answers, you won't find much value here.Much of what's in Kador's book can also be found here:"How Would You Move Mount Fuji: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle" by William PoundstoneSpecifically for software developer interviews, this is also helpful:"Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job" by John MonganJust a hint: Canned answers seldom fool capable interviewers. Your time would be better spent mastering the actual techniques of problem solving, rather than trying to memorize things.

This book helped me a lot as it prepared me for some tough job interview questions. John's other book is really good too called the Flawless Interview - [...] -- lots of job interview strategies, tips, advice and more.

I bought this for my son. We had a laugh over how to solve the problems and it made me realize not to panic in an interview when asked an obscure question. Just give some replies to how you may try and get to the answer. Many questions I could never come to the correct answer unless I had certain knowledge of the subject and found I could be way off but it was fun to see how the brain teasers were solved.

Brainteasers are mostly obvious and not that difficult. I would recommend other sources to prepare those types of quantitative interviews.