[Z-man]

My friend is going on some job interviews and he's getting interviewers asking him logic puzzles like: "You are on an island and you have two bottles and 3 nuts with you. How many lights are on in the basement?"

My take on these are:
1. Yippee! The interviewer likes to get his jollies off by searching google for lame logic questions that do not related to the job description, and bear no evaluation of how logically the candidate can think.
2. Even if there is some worthy evaluation of the answer to the logic question, the interviewer probably has no idea how to properly interpret a candidate's answer.
3. I would much rather discuss logic as it relates directly to the job description rather than deal with stupid scenarios that are the "in thing" to ponder. Parlor games are for the parlor, not an interview!

-Z

PS: The actual question he was asked was: "you are in the basement, and there are three light switches that turn on three lights upstairs. You cannot see the lights from the basement. You can turn on and off the switches as many times as you want before leaving the basement. Once you leave the basement, you must determine which light switch controls which light. You cannot return to the basement"