whoyawn

Most people already do not like brushing up for algorithms. Learning abou the company should take 20 minutes at most. When these assignments take hours of your time with little to no feedback (from my experience), it feels like busy work.

I actually read the parent comment before going to the article and I still had a hard time figuring out the answer. It may be because I was primed with the fact it's a "riddle"; the entire time I was trying to come up with a clever answer rather than thinking the surgeon was the mother. Father+daughter vs father+son didn't have much of an effect, but bias was probably present, nevertheless.