Yeah, I'm the opposite. I never get to the optimal solution in any interview. I've gotten multiple job offers from large well compensating tech firms and work f

Yeah, I'm the opposite. I never get to the optimal solution in any interview. I've gotten multiple job offers from large well compensating tech firms and work for one now. The main thing I do im interviews is be realy clear about how I'm engaging with the problem. And this is what I look for during an interview too. I almost never need the optimal solution in real work. n^2 on ten things is just as good as long(n) for many applications. So your ability to get me that perfect implemention is negligible. But the thing I'm going to have to do every day is talk about a problem together, read your code, have you explain a solution to me. I've worked with the 10xers writing code no one can touch and I've worked with an entire team of average coders who are using good methods and writing maintainable code and I'll take the later every damn day of the week.