Basically, most of the questions I see asked in interviews are contained in Levitin's algorithms book. The greatest potential for someone to excel at those tri

Basically, most of the questions I see asked in interviews are contained in Levitin's algorithms book. The greatest potential for someone to excel at those trick interviews is to be fresh out of college. I walked out of my first interviews, because 'I do not like programming games.' The first was a 4d matrix puzzle with more mathematical/theory roots than programming/logic. My third interview started with the above quote and I was hired on the spot -- I believe they took it as a rebellion of every fresh out of college kid wanting to program video games.