Interviewers react badly if you try to describe the high-level thought processes you go through, because that's not "technical" or "coding". So you end up reach

Interviewers react badly if you try to describe the high-level thought processes you go through, because that's not "technical" or "coding". So you end up reaching for dumb bullshit like gluing some library or whatever the fuck, because coding is actually boring grind work that you want to do as little of as possible, as stupidly as possible, and there actually isn't anything interesting to say to these people if you did the engineering right. If that's not you, then you need to be painfully, painfully explicit about it, and some people still won't believe you because interviewers just lie all the time.