Not to mention that it's one of the dumbest interview questions I've ever heard. Imagine serving a 4-year-old a piece of cake from the bottom (with little fros

Not to mention that it's one of the dumbest interview questions I've ever heard. Imagine serving a 4-year-old a piece of cake from the bottom (with little frosting). I can see why smart people would have trouble with it. They would naturally assume that the interviewer was clever, and would see a mathematical solution while preserving the "cakeness", that is, the ability to carry frosting and internal structure.