[bradstewart]

Practice. I have a very similar reaction to those types of interview questions. Your day-to-day engineering work is entirely different, so it's no surprise you get stuck on those questions. This programming interview book [0] really helped me.

While I don't agree with this type of interview, it is the reality we live in.

Disclaimer: The book was written by a professor of mine in college. [0] https://elementsofprogramminginterviews.com/