> Coders are often under a mistaken impression that interviewers care about your answer. They don't. They care about how you approach it, how you think through

> Coders are often under a mistaken impression that interviewers care about your answer. They don't. They care about how you approach it, how you think through it, what you do when challenged, etc. In many of the places that do claim this, even if you solve the problem "correctly" you still get more brownie points than someone who got a less efficient answer or didn't get an answer. Meaning that they /do/ actually care. I do get that some places are smarter with regards to this than others but it's depressingly common in my experience. "You didn't get the O(n) solution that has weird edge cases and was published as a paper in the 70s? Too bad, because some other person did, because they remember the solution from some programming interview book!"