> I failed a job interview once by using reduce() in a coding test. The reviewer didn't understand why I hadn't used a loop.
Honestly, sounds like the reviewer failed the interview, not the other way around.
Honestly, sounds like the reviewer failed the interview, not the other way around.
However, I agree it might be less performant, and it's a certain kind of thinking that isn't quickly grokked (and doesn't have to be). I deliberately tried to write my story about the interview so as to make it sound like there's positives and negatives to both positions expressed. _I_ have a preference for that functional style, but I know it's not for everyone. That's totally fine.