Technical interviews became 10x easier when I realized that most companies aren&#x27;t necessarily looking for the right answer as much as they are trying to look into your mind.<p>As a self taught programmer things like binary search trees and linked lists are a foreign concepts (especially as a self taught frontend developer). When I am asked to solve a problem in a way I&#x27;ve never encountered before, people are pretty open to explaining how the problem works.<p>I don&#x27;t get frustrated if a problem seems arbitrary or obscure because that&#x27;s typically not the point. The point is, if you&#x27;re going to join my team, how do you approach a difficult problem; do you get upset? do you clam up? I don&#x27;t want someone like that on my team. I&#x27;d say most people would prefer a teammate who is resourceful rather than one who only wants to solve problems they&#x27;re comfortable solving.