Couldnt one just use ice in a pond as a basis for a beginning perfectly flat surface? Then perhaps use clay or something similar poured onto it to create an initial flat surface and build up harder materials from there?
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Typically an interview question should be hard enough to test the limits of any candidate. The goal is to see how someone thinks and how honest they are when faced with a technical challenge, not what they were able to memorize.
With that in mind, take heart if the interviews have been sometimes off the mark. Most interviewers were just pulled from some normal day to ask some questions and often unconsciously see it as an opportunity to show off a bit. They have the keys and you need them.
That said, if you do not feel passionate, I would recommend playing around with some other areas like frontend or ML at home, on your own time, and see if any of them click.
So what you said is not true.
When Google Docs started to bring back a traditional menu display in the top bar, I was so excited. Everything felt normal and it was easy to find what I was looking for.
But the rest of Google Drive is a disaster. Sometimes buttons are in the upper left, sometimes lower left. Recently they moved the “Add new document” button to the lower right and I spent forever trying to find it. It is infuriating that there is not intelligent person at a company of that size who can put a stop to this crap.
I really hate to say this, but I think a lot of UX designers are trying to justify their existence by reinventing things that have already been solved.
The reality is once you decide how a dropdown or a text input works on desktop, there is very little reason to reinvent it. Ever.
Stop reinventing things UX engineers: your small usability study with 3 of your friends who got confused for 5 seconds is not a sign that you should reinvent how to select things in a list.
/endrant