>> If I were interviewed by someone presenting me with this task, I would spend a bit of time helping the interviewer clean up the problem and try to get to whe

>> If I were interviewed by someone presenting me with this task, I would spend a bit of time helping the interviewer clean up the problem and try to get to where they can explain what they want with just words. Clearly The interviewer would fail you because this interviewer wants to feel superior and more powerful. Your attempt to help them do better would enrage their sense that this interview must be putting them above you. Their conclusion would be you are arrogant and hard to work with and you did not understand the simple problem that they explained and they would fail you. All if that is clearly explained in the blog post, indirectly.