> “take a novel problem that they haven't seen before and break it down”
But who does that professionally as a stand-up performance, clock ticking, a judge breathing down your neck who has been equipped with a script that tells him things like “if candidate doesn’t do X within the first ten minutes it’s very bad”?
Doing well in that situation depends more on social performance skills than problem-solving skills. You’re essentially trying to infer the interview script that the interviewer has in mind and act it out convincingly.
If someone says “I’d like to start by taking ten minutes alone in another room and think it out first”, will they get hired? Probably not. It’s not the expected performance even if the solution is fine.
But who does that professionally as a stand-up performance, clock ticking, a judge breathing down your neck who has been equipped with a script that tells him things like “if candidate doesn’t do X within the first ten minutes it’s very bad”?
Doing well in that situation depends more on social performance skills than problem-solving skills. You’re essentially trying to infer the interview script that the interviewer has in mind and act it out convincingly.
If someone says “I’d like to start by taking ten minutes alone in another room and think it out first”, will they get hired? Probably not. It’s not the expected performance even if the solution is fine.