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Hard disagree. On my teams, we're going to give you a problem with some slight ambiguities to see how you handle that. We're going to see what kinds of questions you ask and how you respond to feedback. We want to hear you walk through your thought process. The more senior the position, the more important all of this becomes. Getting the "correct" solution is, at best, 50% of the goal with the interview.


This is not the approach that the majority of coding interviews take. In my experience, it has been disinterested interviewers who are blatantly pretending to understand what they are asking. Any attempt to engage in the type of discussion you aim for is met with dead ends, because that's not what the Googled answer contains.

Your approach is a major outlier. You probably have many good candidates turning away, and for good reason, they have no idea that you are different to everyone else. Find a different way to do this, there are several other approaches.




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