I have experienced that people who understand the problem and simply solve it do not pass interviews. I've experienced this from both sides of the interview and

I have experienced that people who understand the problem and simply solve it do not pass interviews. I've experienced this from both sides of the interview and I was just as confused by my fellow interviewers as I was by the companies I interviewed at. It seems like companies would prefer you to wrap everything in classes, spread the code across several files, and make N+1 copies of data, instead of writing 50-100 lines to actually solve the task.