I hate this. I haven't had an interview that did this in a while. Once I got my confidence up enough to do so, I started ending interviews with this kind of eso

I hate this. I haven't had an interview that did this in a while. Once I got my confidence up enough to do so, I started ending interviews with this kind of esoteric puzzle play. Let's have an actual conversation about what I think about a relevant real-world process or problem. Then we're both engaged in learning something. This should not be a setting for exacting a candidate to recite a study of algorithms or discrete structures--go back to campus if we're going to be that pedantic.