> but this 'My way or the highway' from pseudo engineers
Aren't you saying the same thing to them when you decline to move forward? Looks like your both have the same message just relative to your position in the discussion.
Not really. Im open to discuss any solution to a problem, from the most performant one to the most simple one (code wise) that does the job.
When someone says: Maybe you could use a binary tree. and the reply is: No, that is wrong, what you need is X, is a different thing.
Beste inverviews I had were always a give an take. I talked algorithms, data structures, etc but never with the interviewer having a one solution answer. Best interview questions are like:
Ok, we have this domain problem, what can you do about it? and then spend a couple hours on a whiteboard on a back and forth discussion about it, maybe you get it right, maybe you dont but have another idea, etc.
When someone says: Maybe you could use a binary tree. and the reply is: No, that is wrong, what you need is X, is a different thing.
Beste inverviews I had were always a give an take. I talked algorithms, data structures, etc but never with the interviewer having a one solution answer. Best interview questions are like:
Ok, we have this domain problem, what can you do about it? and then spend a couple hours on a whiteboard on a back and forth discussion about it, maybe you get it right, maybe you dont but have another idea, etc.