I've definitely been in that awesome "hopelessly incapable of answering an 'easy' interview question" situation before. The worst time was when I was interview

I've definitely been in that awesome "hopelessly incapable of answering an 'easy' interview question" situation before. The worst time was when I was interviewing with RethinkDB, and one of their guys asked me a dynamic programming question. Did I know that dynamic programming was fair game for any technical interview? Absolutely. Did I prepare for it at all? Nope (which is not to claim that I would have aced it with some amount of preparation -- I just know I couldn't have done worse). I remember thinking as I was leaving "Well it was cool of them to buy me lunch, and the weather's nice." Later that evening my doubts in my interviewing prowess were confirmed :) Still, awesome guys, hard problems, I encourage you to apply :) http://rethinkdb.com/jobs/ http://rethinkdb.com/jobs/