When you say "unduly verbose" I am not sure what exactly the interviewer/you are looking here. I purposefully made it verbose so that anyone who calls himself a

When you say "unduly verbose" I am not sure what exactly the interviewer/you are looking here. I purposefully made it verbose so that anyone who calls himself a programmer should understand what I am doing. Even I dint spend any time in refactoring or optimization as this is just a hack to get past a job interview. When an interviewer gives you tasks like this do they expect optimized and refactored code?