I've had interviews like that in the past, and really enjoyed them. Much better than "Draw an architecture diagram for how you'd handle a serverless IoT applic

I've had interviews like that in the past, and really enjoyed them. Much better than "Draw an architecture diagram for how you'd handle a serverless IoT application" - where you lose points, silenly, because you didn't pick something the interviewer expected you to do. Usually a simple combination of immutable files, SELinux policies, and types in configuration files were enough for most of the challenges. Though now and again you'd find they'd given you a server with packages removed, or not yet installed.