To put on a devil's advocate hat: This is a great interview for someone whose job will be to create basic CRUD web/mobile apps. And there's nothing wrong with

To put on a devil's advocate hat: This is a great interview for someone whose job will be to create basic CRUD web/mobile apps. And there's nothing wrong with that! 90 (99?) of the software the world needs are basic CRUD web/mobile apps. Hell, for probably 60% of that, a basic no-frills CRUD app would be an improvement! But HackerNews measures it's baseline of the tech industry against "BigTech". That's more than FAANG, that's now also the 500+ unicorns imitating FAANG. All these unicorns don't get to where they are by building CRUD Apps - They're Changing The World. (facetious) And changing the world (serious now) requires not hiring engineers who can build CRUD apps with a database, but engineers who could build the database, the next Swagger, etc.