> Spaces are fine, tabs are fine, but mixing them would be absolutely terrible. A programmer's personal preference for one or the other is irrelevant. What matt

> Spaces are fine, tabs are fine, but mixing them would be absolutely terrible. A programmer's personal preference for one or the other is irrelevant. What matters is that he's willing to adapt to the coding style of the company. That sounds like a better answer to the question right there. It's the "some though out response" that the interviewer was looking for, willingness to put the team's decisions ahead of your own, and so on.