Speccing something that is under-specced before coding and splitting big fuzzy task into a list of less vague tasks is a critical skill. There's some similarit

Speccing something that is under-specced before coding and splitting big fuzzy task into a list of less vague tasks is a critical skill. There's some similarity to big tech interviews: you often get an intentionally fuzzy task and your first job is to ask clarifying questions and tell your assumptions out loud. If you go straight to coding it's a big red flag. In this vein, we can say that kind of interview prepares candidates to the real job where others are busy and don't have infinite time to write perfect specs and just hand them out to you to implement.