Code not for elegance but for interns

During one technical coding interview, I prefaced my answer with this:

“I assume the answer is what I would do in real life, working in a team who need to quickly understand and debug my code. And the code would scale and be testable.”

My answer is not a “toy” answer. I code for real life.

Multiple discreet stages instead of one pass wonders

Instead of an “elegant” approach which calculates results in a single pass, my solution achieves its result in…