Hmm, I suspect I'd have the opposite problem if I were to go interviewing again. As I teach students, there's an awful lot of whipped-together-in-an-hour demos

Hmm, I suspect I'd have the opposite problem if I were to go interviewing again. As I teach students, there's an awful lot of whipped-together-in-an-hour demos on there from answering student questions by writing tiny non-meticulous examples. To be honest, though, I've tended to find interviews go well when the interviewer goes off-piste. Probably because you've both decided your each reasonably smart, and are letting the conversation go where it leads.