> They really good ones admit to the possibility that there were other better ways to have built, or explain to me the constraints under which they made the choices they did.
Does anyone just clam up because you are making slights about something where you don't know the constraints and make inferences about you from that? Most of us have dealt with utterly terrible, opinionated, under-skilled, supercilious and rude interviewers. How do you avoid coming off at least a little bit like that? Generally speaking there's zero point picking fights with an interviewer no matter how wrong they are.
Does anyone just clam up because you are making slights about something where you don't know the constraints and make inferences about you from that? Most of us have dealt with utterly terrible, opinionated, under-skilled, supercilious and rude interviewers. How do you avoid coming off at least a little bit like that? Generally speaking there's zero point picking fights with an interviewer no matter how wrong they are.