>Your interviewer might have just failed in explaining the problem constraints properly. The simpler and more common explanation is that the interviewer was lo

>Your interviewer might have just failed in explaining the problem constraints properly. The simpler and more common explanation is that the interviewer was looking to have his biases reflected by the interviewee. In my experience it is difficult for a certain kind of mind to distinguish between "This person is stupid/crazy/wrong for the job" and "This person knows something I don't".