Raw LLM Responses

> You tell these people that you skipped Christmas because you had to fix an open source dependency to unblock some random guy in Indian if you have to… "I worked extra hard outside of working hours to get it done" is explicitly listed as a Concern answer (i.e. a wrong answer and one that will get you rejected) in the interviewing guides for Deliver Results and Earn Trust. The thing about your code not needing to run also isn't a "hack", interviewers will regularly tell candidates that they don't need to worry about perfect syntax (except for a Logical and Maintainable Code interview). The whole point of the coding interviews is to demonstrate that you're familiar with common data structures and algorithms and that you can translate those ideas into code.