IMO, this interview question is going to get you amazing developer who fail to build anything of value.

I don't like the trick of failing candidates if they don't ask a question. 90% of this style of interview want candidates to rifle through solutions. If you want to talk about requirements, be explicit about it.

I'm really amazed that this "best interview" question really just boils down to leetcode for a _Senior Staff_ level interview. I don't know about y'all, but the _Senior Staff_ and _Principal_ developers I've worked with aren't wasting their time of shit like this. They're ironing out requirements. They're working with stakeholder. They're architecting systems. They're figuring out how to deliver the value the customer wants - and they're ensuring that it's actually the customer wants.

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There's a place for performance, but the fast running turd is still a turd.

> I'm really amazed that this "best interview" question really just boils down to leetcode for a _Senior Staff_ level interview.

A good interview should involve more than just a coding problem. But it should absolutely require at least one coding problem. It’s mind boggling the number of “senior” people with good resumes I’ve screened out in interviews over the years because, simple as a problem like this is, they really had no idea how to even start solving it.

I don’t know about the poster, but when I’ve done interviews - especially for senior people - there are a lot of different types of assessment I’d want to do before hiring them. I’d also want to assess their social skills somehow (eg get them to present to the team about something interesting). And ask some high level systems architecture questions, talk about their background, and more.

Or JIRA, which is particularly inexcusable.

My username at a large org is my first name. In any situation where someone wants to link to me or mention me, typing my username brings up a list of every person at the org with my name, alphabetically. My last name inevitably sorts me down toward the bottom.

You would think that an exact literal username match would have priority, but no. Typing any prefix of my name similarly sorts everyone else before me too.

Amazon’s VP of Search used to be Udi Manber, who literally wrote the book on Search. The crappiness of their search is deliberate, it is there to serve Amazon’s business objectives, not your needs.

> Same with Microsoft's search in the start menu. Doesn't find Excel if I type "exc".

What do you get? I tried just now, and `E` gives me Excel. In fact, I typed "Esc" first on accident, and I got something different for "Es" but "Esc" gave me Excel too.

Sometimes I get nothing until I type "Excel", sometimes I get suggestions for a web search.

Ah, maybe the difference is that I disabled web search completely so it's limited to locally-installed stuff. If it's suggesting web results, I wonder if that's a deliberately-bad result for advertising reasons