Eh... his point is largely making lemonade out of a situation of lemons. It's a healthy mindset for sure, but it's still forcing yourself to look on the bright

Eh... his point is largely making lemonade out of a situation of lemons. It's a healthy mindset for sure, but it's still forcing yourself to look on the bright side of a crummy situation. Interviews test your ability to quickly solve silly problems under stress. This is a muscle you can get better at with training. And, yep, there's a non-zero chance that it make cause an epiphany or insight into something else. However, there's a much higher chance that it does not. Years into my career, my interest in grinding those type of problems just for the purpose of performing during an interview is effectively zero. The thing that I love about CS is how broad it is. There's a great big world of things to dive very deeply into which aren't graph traversal algorithms or solving word problems. Being forced to halt your own personal research, hobbies, or interests because of our current broken interview system is lame even when spun as "I'll think of it as probably useful".