Interviews usually have extremely limited time, especially if some interesting “tangent” comes up, which often tell the true depth of their knowledge. Maybe the

Interviews usually have extremely limited time, especially if some interesting “tangent” comes up, which often tell the true depth of their knowledge. Maybe the concurrency would be one possible tangent. Regardless, the concurrent approach would be 90% the same as the single thread approach, leaving it for a good “after the fact” question, assuming the candidate still has time.