Maybe I'm getting old, picky, arrogant, or some other malady, but I am simply uninterested in working at a company that asks these types of riddles. There are

Maybe I'm getting old, picky, arrogant, or some other malady, but I am simply uninterested in working at a company that asks these types of riddles. There are many more practical ways to gauge people's thought processes, and I'd like to think that my PhD and patents are superior evidence of abstract thought than answering questions that are common enough to have books published about them.