I failed a number of technical interviews because I can't make architecture diagrams.
I come out of the first tech interview, coding/debugging, with praises. But then comes the second, the architecture interview, and I can't for the life of me draw the architecture of anything.
I don't know how people learn to do that, I've learned to code/debug by being obsessive about it. But I don't see how that happens for system architecture.
I've never used diagrams in my day-to-day work, so when it comes up in interviews I'm always surprised.
I come out of the first tech interview, coding/debugging, with praises. But then comes the second, the architecture interview, and I can't for the life of me draw the architecture of anything.
I don't know how people learn to do that, I've learned to code/debug by being obsessive about it. But I don't see how that happens for system architecture.
I've never used diagrams in my day-to-day work, so when it comes up in interviews I'm always surprised.