Most of the hiring is geared towards what do you know instead of how do you solve problems. I recently went to work a two big company, which is considered high

Most of the hiring is geared towards what do you know instead of how do you solve problems. I recently went to work a two big company, which is considered highly agile and progressive. I was tasked to build a pricing engine to customize prices for a static inventory of products. Number of products were about 30 and did not change month to month. The architecture suggested we use close to 18 different technologies, including caching systems, message bus, reactive programming. All to give 10 possible prices for 30 products. So essentially 300 values and a system to change the rules which determined the prices based on 3/4 parameters. I built the entire system in 2 days which was ready to be tested, but was told to scrap the work as it did not follow the internal development guidelines. Not to mention I was reprimanded for not including team and calling a complex problem trivial as it increased signaling risk internally. Apparently they are still building that system with 5 engineers, 2 analysts, 1 devops person, and 1 team lead. I left the company 2 years ago. And interestingly each and every person on the team got a promotion, multiple performance bonuses in last 2 years.