People say this but then they reject answers that e.g correctly code the brute force solution or they don’t provide an algorithm to code for, so it’s not just “

People say this but then they reject answers that e.g correctly code the brute force solution or they don’t provide an algorithm to code for, so it’s not just “can you code,” it’s can you find the optimal algorithm and also code it, and usually the algorithm isn’t trivial or one you’d ever run into at work.