I'm hiring, and discussions of how we want to respond to engineer candidates who get stuck are interesting. I'm personally more interested in their collaboration (wildcard) than their chat-fu (assumed at this point). So my advice to people reading this with interviews in the next year (or next week) is to consider getting off the screen and solving something with a person. We will all get plenty of self-solving time, but it helps if you can show that you can explain yourself during rapid fire situations involving others, or to bring them along with your plan, or building an unfamiliar plan B with others when two AZ are down in us-east-1 and noone planned for XYZ to be unavailable (eg something that the LLM site depended on) Not that I'm certain it'll happen, but I think calculators (to go back to this story) were more reliable than anything we've typed into the past month, and for me that includes their batteries.