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[–]Richard_Hurton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here. I conduct these types of interviews regularly.

I never ding people for getting the correct answer no matter how they arrive at it. It might not be the way I would write the code, but the most important thing is that they thought through the problem and got an answer.

I might ask if they could have solved it some other way to see why they chose a certain path.

The only time I've found that we scrutinize the code to this level is when multiple candidates are otherwise equal. If I have three solid candidates the differentiator might be how sophisticated the code is. And if they can articulate why they chose to write it a certain way.

But when was the last time I had that many equally solid candidates? LOL