> the fact that I was good at solving strictly more difficult problems didn’t matter because I didn’t know how to solve the easier ones they actually had I ref

> the fact that I was good at solving strictly more difficult problems didn’t matter because I didn’t know how to solve the easier ones they actually had I refuse to believe Google employees solve "scale" problems every day. Be realistic, you configure systems and make calls to libraries which perform the scaling for you. Yes, the systems and the libraries can be impressive but your glue code is not. That's why you fail the "easy" questions.