You definitely dodged a bullet here, I can assure you. The cluster of behaviors in a workplace associated with this attitude that your code AND your thoughts should fall in only their specific pattern would have chipped away the love you have for your work little by little.
I can tell you right away that this practice of "memorizing" code comes from traditional software development. I had a lot of interviews in my short career where I am supposed to be a walking breathing data storage instead of someone who loves implementing good solutions. If you remember something from your muscle memory, that's definitely amazing but doesn't prove your solution is going to be worse than others.
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You definitely dodged a bullet here, I can assure you. The cluster of behaviors in a workplace associated with this attitude that your code AND your thoughts should fall in only their specific pattern would have chipped away the love you have for your work little by little.
I can tell you right away that this practice of "memorizing" code comes from traditional software development. I had a lot of interviews in my short career where I am supposed to be a walking breathing data storage instead of someone who loves implementing good solutions. If you remember something from your muscle memory, that's definitely amazing but doesn't prove your solution is going to be worse than others.