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What do you do when you are stuck in an interview?
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Say so, state what has been ruled out and why, and propose the next thing to try. Interviewers expect candidates to get stuck; they are assessing how you behave when it happens.
Reading an answer is not being able to give one. The section that teaches this is Communicating while you work, 4 hours of Interviewing well.
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