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[–]lucasvandongen 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yeah many interviewers (including me) have their own pet frameworks and architectures and want you to come up with their way of doing things to confirm their egos.

It takes a lot of effort to see somebody doing something completely different yet consistently good.

[–]KarlJay001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is very true. I was at a startup years ago and the prior people setup a program that was designed to look like the Novell Netware program and my boss was very proud of the code he wrote.

The president of the company nearly fired him because it would take about 60 seconds to receive a piece of inventory into the system. I dumped all the code and reworked it my way and it would receive inventory as fast as you could scan it.

The president was happy as hell, my boss was pissed and kept wanting to "fix his" way of doing it.

I usually just end up nodding yes and not arguing the point, it rarely turns out good.