I've had coworkers at Google tell me that they've informed candidates verbatim "don't bother giving me the O(n^2) solution" right when they start to go down tha

I've had coworkers at Google tell me that they've informed candidates verbatim "don't bother giving me the O(n^2) solution" right when they start to go down that path. Hard to get much more of their thought process when you shut them down immediately.