What Qualities Are You Looking for in a Technical Interview?

"I like to think I snuck in the back door on that one," he says. "It's not about necessarily knowing every CS concept or every algorithm." But it's about how do you think through the problem? And how do you work from, okay, this is the basic idea of how this works?" He adds: "A lot of people be really successful when you say like, okay, I'm not actually familiar with that concept ... can you give me the 30 seconds of how that works?"