Thank you for the clarification! Makes sense. Do you want to say, that non-messy coder should refuse to code under time pressure (=not self-imposed rush?) and do not rush himself? In other words, no code is better than messy code?

And regarding the interview - of course it's a "time pressure" situation, and it may require certain traits (like stress resistance), which are not normally necessary for the software engineer.

Of course, interview time pressure is a pressure only when the candidate normally works slowly (or as you mentioned - in a less known language.), and they are messy when they rush...

One more interesting topic is whether messy guy can learn to be less messy or there is no such hope?