And yet so many interviewers say, "We don't care whether the code is perfect, we just want to see how you think." The insanity for job applicants is that you n

And yet so many interviewers say, "We don't care whether the code is perfect, we just want to see how you think." The insanity for job applicants is that you never know which kind of interviewer you're going to get until it's too late. Every interviewer has their own nitpicks, yet they somehow believe that their specific nitpicks should be assumed to be universal requirements. And then hiring managers complain that good programmers are difficult to find, lacking the self-awareness to see how many candidates they arbitrarily exclude for dumb reasons. I've seen people say "I'd pass on a candidate for X" for more or less all X.