[nicoburns]

I usually go, “I’m reality I’d spend a couple of hours researching the best solution to this before starting, but seeing as I can’t d that here…”

And then proceed with my non-optimal solution. They often don’t care about optimality at all. I’ve passed interviews by implementing a bubble sort before. And I have no shame in doing so. I’ve never needed to implement a sort in an actual job, and if I did need to I would be looking up how to do it.