Am in the preparation for an interview. I guess that there will definitely be around one hour to spend in discussing about a problem which the interviewer will present to me...

So what i would like to do is, prepare for such a thing right now. If i get such programming problems, i will start to discuss with my friends and get practiced with that.

Any programming problem is fine. It would be great that, if some interviewer can post what kind of programming problem you would be discussing with the interviewee.. Or any experts who can help me by posting such a question is also fine.

I dont want answers or general interview Q/A. I am in need of programming problems to discuss, dig into it .. discuss.. and continue .. Kind of forming algorithms.

I am a perl programmer, if the problem is related to that, and solvable in perl, it would be good. But anyway anything is fine, as they are very much interested in problem solving skills more than programming skill. Additional info, i am an advanced user in Linux ( but not sysadmin ).

Notes: 1. I know it is a very general question, so i taken enough care to explain as clearly as possible. If something is missing, kindly help me in finding out the right answer. 2. I understand a lot of experts gather here, so this is the very right place to ask this question.

Thanks a lot for everybody who helps in improving myself, by answering this question. ( i asked this in stackoverflow, and they guys closed before getting good answer.... expecting answer atleast here.. )

In reply to Would like to spend time in a good mind blowing problem solving discussion by Anonymous Monk

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