[mattbettinson]

I feel like I am bad at these kinds of interviews. Maybe I just haven’t built big enough systems yet (fairly new to the senior role)

[epolanski]

I have spoken with candidates about their small IDE extensions and it can get incredibly deep.

You don't need a large amount of code, when you're crossing the few hundres/thousands then you're already in the territory where the software developer has trade offs to make.