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by nuclearnice1 1057 days ago
Generally, if you find a simplification that makes the problem trivial you’re interpreting it wrong and should reconsider.
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labster 1056 days ago
It’s funny because that’s the opposite of what you’d want in a new hire: you want the engineer to pick a trivial solution rather than over-designing everything, so they can solve more problems for your company.
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nuclearnice1 1056 days ago
Ha. Right. I guess it’s just one more way in which the interview is an anti pattern for the behavior we want in a coworker.

Can I Google this? Sorry no.

ChapGPT? Pretend it’s not available.

Use a library? No no no.

Ask for help? Thanks for coming in.

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