Your interview analogy is a bad one. Because they are not trying to make their solutions as similar as possible to each other.
If you had interviewee A write some piece of code, and then said to interviewee B "I want you to solve this problem as close as possible as the person before you did it, here is their executable", you'd be quite surprised what they could do. Especially if interviewee B is Alex Ionescu.
If you had interviewee A write some piece of code, and then said to interviewee B "I want you to solve this problem as close as possible as the person before you did it, here is their executable", you'd be quite surprised what they could do. Especially if interviewee B is Alex Ionescu.