High pressure to me, in this case, is because the stakes are high. And if not enough time is given that makes it pressure. The whole way I think in these circumstances is different to on the job. There is more shortcutting, looking for artificial tricks and so on. In the real job more deep thinking/strategic/ looking for real world murphys law type things that’ll bite you.

But interviewing, i.e. determining if you want 5k hours work from someone in less than 5 hours, is going to be heuristic and imperfect. Always.