I've never actually had an interviewer reject my solution for not being identical to the one they had in mind. Are you basing this on real experience, or assump

I've never actually had an interviewer reject my solution for not being identical to the one they had in mind. Are you basing this on real experience, or assumption? If I asked you that as a "do they know about bits and bytes at all" question and you said "here's an assembly function that's available everywhere" I'd be like "great, they clearly are more familiar than I am about that space." The closest I've run into has been the interviewer who's like "use any language you like" who then couldn't seem to grasp that `.each` in Ruby is basically the same as `for(x : things)` and kept bugging me about it until I said fuck it and just used Python instead.