That's probably the most short-sighted list of excuses I've ever read. Recently I had an interview with a developer candidate who questioned or derided every d

That's probably the most short-sighted list of excuses I've ever read. Recently I had an interview with a developer candidate who questioned or derided every design decision I made as CTO at our company, because he had no concept of the realities involved with those decisions. What appears illogical or a waste of time from a single point of view is actually perfectly logical and will save a ton of time later when you take the overall view. The constant discounting of decades of experience is particularly grating. One of the reasons I did X was because I dealt with Y twenty years ago, and I'd rather not deal with it again.