[labster]

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.

[nuclearnice1]

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.