+100 This took me 10 years to realize. I find myself getting rid of everything clever, my code reads like a boring instruction manual. I'm starting to deeply

+100 This took me 10 years to realize. I find myself getting rid of everything clever, my code reads like a boring instruction manual. I'm starting to deeply re-think how code interviews should be conducted. Instead of asking smarty-pants questions, we should be asking mediocre questions and just asking someone to put together a straight-forward and simple solution. Important: it's surprisingly difficult to make code that looks simple and boring :), it often takes some iteration.