I don't have a CS degree...I actually studied English. I'm self-taught, and over the last 8 years I've worked my way up from a freelance web designer writing sp

I don't have a CS degree...I actually studied English. I'm self-taught, and over the last 8 years I've worked my way up from a freelance web designer writing spaghetti code to a senior developer at ClearChannel, to a director of engineering at a 40 person startup. The most important part of any interview is confidence. The dating analogy is appropriate. Realistically, no one ever has to write code under the gun like in the interview. If you draw a blank, at least get some ideas out in pseudocode, or describe your thought process. I have drawn a blank in an interview, and what I've done is email the interviewer later with the solution. In each time, I got the job.