One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
Congratulations, you now know everything that I know, which is that the complexity is almost never of fact of Nature, but, in fact, the result of smart people being good as making simple things as complex as possible.
Now you can play the same game as me if you see that your friends are being over-stressed over super complicated things. You know less than them about this super complicated thing (since they are the one who obsessed about it since weeks) but you do know that it's probably not super complex.
The only thing they need, is you, their friend, helping them to realize that they are overthinking it.
This is more or less the algorithm to do French Irony(*)
Friend: Oh man, this shit is so complicated
You: Oh yeah. Very complicated. It's the most complex thing in the world.
You: But why?
Friend: I MUST do all those 42 things.
You: Are you sure?
Friend: Yes of course, I SHOULD do this and this and this and this in order to XXX
You: Mmmh I see. That sounds terribly complicated indeed.
Friend: Yes. What can I do?
You: Well, you are not the first woman ever to try to do XXX
You: Did they all have to do those 42 things?
Friend: Mmmh let me think.
You: OK
Friend: No in fact the real problem is that $OTHER_SHIT is so complicated.
You: Are you sure?
(etc)
At some point, friend realize herself that she was overthinking it.
And you both laugh together the stress away.
(*) My greek friend would point out, and rightly so, that we didn't, in fact, were the ones that came up with Socratic Irony
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Congratulations, you now know everything that I know, which is that the complexity is almost never of fact of Nature, but, in fact, the result of smart people being good as making simple things as complex as possible.
Now you can play the same game as me if you see that your friends are being over-stressed over super complicated things. You know less than them about this super complicated thing (since they are the one who obsessed about it since weeks) but you do know that it's probably not super complex.
The only thing they need, is you, their friend, helping them to realize that they are overthinking it.
This is more or less the algorithm to do French Irony(*)
At some point, friend realize herself that she was overthinking it.
And you both laugh together the stress away.
(*) My greek friend would point out, and rightly so, that we didn't, in fact, were the ones that came up with Socratic Irony