Well stated. I seem like the exact type of dev as described in this blog post - I get performance anxiety and the audited interview process doesn't fit my parti

Well stated. I seem like the exact type of dev as described in this blog post - I get performance anxiety and the audited interview process doesn't fit my particular style. I wouldn't describe myself as slow, but my steps to solving a problem are often not linear and sometimes difficult to measure in such a setting. as a devops engineer as my main job, I also try to explain to interviewers that on any given day I am reading and writing half a dozen languages of vastly different paradigms, and although I'm very proficient in many of them, I definitely need to reference things that maybe shouldn't "need" to be referenced (like confusing bash/python loop syntax is very common for me as an example). This rarely ever slows me down in reality, but will definitely cause me to fail interviews I shouldn't. If I was an interviewer, I wouldn't care if a dev knew whatever esoteric language syntax or API calls by heart. I'd just expect them to know how to use them intelligently. The former does not always imply the latter.