The technical interviewer gave me an algorithm question that I fielded for an interview for another company. I said I've heard it before, and asked if there was a backup question we should switch to. The interviewer said we should go ahead and I basically just dropped the optimum answer and live coded it. I mentioned I would be rustier on the "harder version" of it that comes next, and found out he wasn't familiar with that particular twist. I asked if I could give it to him and we could work it out together, and he said yes. So we spent the rest of the half hour laughing with me sort of leading him through a more challenging form of the question and working it out together.

I don't think this would have been successful if I went into the interview with a random Leetcode question in my back pocket and awkwardly asked for someone to work through it for me. However, if it comes up naturally for you like it did for me, it can be a very fun and rewarding experience.