+1 to all this. It still surprises me how many people, even after being in the industry for years, think the goal of any interview is to “write the best code” or “get the right answer”.

What I want to know from an interview is if you can be presented an abstract problem and collaboratively work with others on it. After that, getting the “right” answer to my contrived interview question is barely even icing on the cake.

If you complain about having to have a discussion about how to solve the problem, I no longer care about actually solving the problem, because you’ve already failed the test.