[bombela]

As a senior (in age and experience), it is sometimes not pleasant.

The junior interviewer might be really smart and extremely motivated, but ready to argue about something very specific while missing the forest for the tree.

Years ago, I was interviewed by two young guys at meta. They asked me to solve on a white board a problem to which the obvious and expected solution was a binary search. Which I did.

I wrote a generic binary search function, and then used it in another function. I stepped through the code of each functions line by line as attempt to prove correctness.

They wouldn't have it. They argued I could only prove it was working by stepping through both functions together. While I argued the literal point of using (pure) functions was to simplify by composing and abstraction.

Things got quite heated up. Especially with one of dude. I just left right there and then.