[resolutebat]

Congratulations, you have qualified as a Type 1 candidate and did not get the job.

"and the whole thing needs to be atomic. Let’s look at how the locking works…” They spend all three hours getting deeper and deeper down various rabbit holes, and never produce anything that works. Candidates in this group don’t get hired."

[timthelion]

Actually, I know how to communicate and would explain the problem to them.

[timthelion]

Also, locking wouldn't help with this as even that wouldn't fix the fundamental design issue.