[DeathArrow]

>In turn I tried to keep the code as simple as possible, with only necessary abstractions.

I always talked the talk and walked the walk for the interviews. I know people love Solid, design patterns, Dry, OOP, Restful, Clean Code, complicated architectures. So I am always willing to talk about these and even sprinkle the discussion with the most obscure design patterns they may never heard of.

Yes, I do consider some of these being fads or even detrimental to good software but my goal was to be employed, not to convince people that there is not only one True Way.