I've felt this a lot myself. So many interviewers hate being asked "why?" "Why this problem?" "What is the reasoning behind this problem?" I've learned some f

I've felt this a lot myself. So many interviewers hate being asked "why?" "Why this problem?" "What is the reasoning behind this problem?" I've learned some fascinating things about company attitudes in asking these "why?" questions. It turns out that Not-Invented-Here syndrome really can be deep enough in corporate culture you can hear it in interview questions if you ask follow up questions. ("That's just what we do, we don't trust the library solution at our scale." Cool, rewriting platform libraries orthogonal to your business delivers real value to your consumers I'm sure.~) So I'm probably still going to ask a lot of "why" questions in interviews, because it yields useful information. But I'm painfully aware from rejections how much interviewers seem to hate it.