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Not what was expected of them. I included "minimum-viable" in my original reply for a specific reason: to counter OP's lament that they lost out to a simpler so
by edfletcher_t137 1y ago
Not what was expected of them. I included "minimum-viable" in my original reply for a specific reason: to counter OP's lament that they lost out to a simpler solution.
If you are asked to implement X and instead you take extra time and come back with X+Y+Z, what have you done? Wasted time e.g. money. Companies really hate wasting money.
So if in your candidate project you demonstrate a propensity for bike-shedding any task, that's gonna be a big red flag.
- dalmo3 1y agoIt was expected that the candidate filled the blanks. He specifically mentioned he would fill those blanks with Y+Z, before he spent time on them. In the real world, if the time he spent was deemed wasted time, that's management's fault.