…n a consumer product surface of our own, so there isn’t an app for the team to maintain day-to-day. I also had a preconceived bias against designing “technology first” versus “people problem first”, so figuring out how to work effectively in a world where technological capabilities are unfolding real-time (and you are working to apply them in the right way) felt backward and unfamiliar to me.
The goal of design exercises should be to get a feel for your chemistry when working together, not to assess if you can design or not. By the time you are in this step of the hiring process, a good interviewer ought to know whether you have the hard skills.