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Not quite a personal project, I know..
It MUST?
How someone can say this (and still claim to be green) is beyond me.
We also nudge interviewees in the right direction to make sure they don't get stuck, which would be in no ones interest.
There is also no hard requirement that you need to solve the problem completely. If you talk to someone for 45 minutes about a coding problem you will get a good sense of their performance, even if they don't solve the problem.
Coding interviews are great (except making the intervieww very nervous), but you have to be mindful as an interviewer.
Also, I usually listens to books/podcasts while I sleep, and when not sleeping I usually relisten large parts of them since I often wander away with my thoughts. This sounds horrible from my perspective.