I always try to find out if the candidate could - with enough information - solve the puzzle. Can you, given time, figure out a good solution to the problem I

I always try to find out if the candidate could - with enough information - solve the puzzle. Can you, given time, figure out a good solution to the problem I am asking? How would you go about solving the problem? What is your methodology? I agree with you. These sorts of problems are really to understand how someone reacts to a new idea that he or she does not understand. A lot of times people tell me that they don't know they answer to a problem, which is fine. Knowing that there are things that we don't know if a sign of maturity, and the curiosity to figure out how to solve a problem is what we should be looking for.