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This only works if you work someplace that has complicated problems and/or architecture astronauts who like to overcomplicate everything. Every small, mid and even most large-scale tech shops are able to execute on goals using off the shelf software. How do we scale payments at my org? We pay Stripe. How do we scale search? We pay Alogolia. How do we scale our public facing web sites? We pay Amazon. I've been in architects/director roles at multiple orgs for over ten years and everything they ask at FAANG system design interviews is still stuff I've only read about.