Zapier Sr. Software Engineer interview questions

Recruiter chat, hiring manager, take home assessment that’s supposed to be “time boxed” for 2.5 hours, system design, and idk. Honestly what Zapier is looking for isn’t actual development chops, they want you to spew out as much AI slop as possible. The take home assessment isn’t actually realistically feasible in 2.5 hours unless you off load a majority of the work to Claude or whatever. You know, it’s actually fascinating when you think about it. You’re being graded not on actual thought, but just how fast you can pump out code. There’s no rhyme or reason, there’s no thinking about “is this maintainable? Is this going to impact reviews? Is the code going to be understood in 3/6/9 months?” I mean I guess it’s par for the course at Zapier, they’ve gone all in towards AI “development” because that’s what I guess software development is. But it’ll be interesting to see how they can handle when their stuff inevitably breaks.