[yakshaving]

It’s a shame that this post can even be deemed heretical when in fact it’s the normal mechanism for completing tasks by the vast preponderance of developers for overcoming technical challenges.

Understanding the ways in which technical people find answers, and can fully grok and socialize those answers internally with options is invaluable in a technical interview.

[illuminate]

The applicant can already do this, in asking the right sorts of questions from the interviewer to help them solve whatever rut they've found themselves in.