[xstartup]

Did you try destroying the interviewer? Usually, when an interviewee gives us the solution, we listen to them and then respond with, "you can instead do this". Which includes some trap. Interviewees who don't blindly do what we say and challenge our solution and explain us the reason pass our technical interview. Also, the board interviews are trivial for an engineer/coder. We usually ask very simple questions like "When would you choose linked-list over an array?" or some language specific stuff like "What's the difference between shared_ptr and unique_ptr?". It's trivial if you claim to have 10 year experience in C++. I mostly interview for startups but we don't trust your past title or years of experience by default even if it can be verified in some way. Some body-shops, simply reward fancy titles in lieu of raise less promotions which makes these titles useless.