i am in the market now and have the opposite experience. I do agree that lots of ppl are very prepared for interviews now, it wasn't the case even few years ag

i am in the market now and have the opposite experience. I do agree that lots of ppl are very prepared for interviews now, it wasn't the case even few years ago. They expect you to do everything perfectly in interviews these days. In your case you were probly expect to explore other ways to solve problems, eg: some alogorithm will have worst put complexity but most calls are to get so we can sacrifice some put complexity to improve get complexity. stuff like this. pls see this : https://www.teamblind.com/post/7-onsites-7-offers-aAFTykAD https://www.teamblind.com/post/7-onsites-7-offers-aAFTykAD