I despise brain teaser interview questions - are you interviewing me as a Sunday Puzzles columnist or do you want me to program/design/manage? To me they reek

I despise brain teaser interview questions - are you interviewing me as a Sunday Puzzles columnist or do you want me to program/design/manage? To me they reek of pop-psych bullshittery - as if somehow my responses to "why are manhole covers round" would represent some divine introspection to my inner personality and capabilities... or that my ability to gauge the temperatures of three light bulbs is in any way connected to my engineering ability.