I think the focus was on the fact that it is arbitrary. The person you are interviewing may not even know nor want to care what a Fibonacci sequence is. He is s

I think the focus was on the fact that it is arbitrary. The person you are interviewing may not even know nor want to care what a Fibonacci sequence is. He is saying the goal is to understand the candidate and the way they think, not to trivia them about random stuff ( since it will put them down if they don't know it )