100% agree with the "building for trust". The only problem is we tend to hire based solely on technical skill. I don't recall an interviewer ever asking me something like, "how do you build a team that values trust and what does trust mean to you?"
Even when I joined the team, we never discussed trust and what we can do to be a more trustworthy team. It was always centered around how can we be more efficient in our deliverables.
180 minute pair programming call as well as a 60 minute tech screen? Even MAANG companies only do 2 technical rounds of "pair" programming. Why so much?
I liked the points about bringing something early to the group and being comfortable with a half-baked ideas (provided it didn't take 2 weeks to write a couple of paragraphs for your design). Started off with some good insights, then pushed into the whole, "use FigJam, it worked for us"... Sucks, because it was shaping up to be a pretty good article, but instead we got an ad.
Nice work, did you start off by looking at any previously built canvas-like spreadsheets or was it straight to "virtualized custom canvas magic"?
I interviewed at a spreadsheet company (for a frontend role) and they asked, "how would you go about determining what cells need a border when a user clicks an individual cell, clicks a cell and selects multiple cells, clicks a cell next to an already selected cell." Fascinating problem and we talked about solutions for a little bit.
Noticed that you can't unselect a cell once it's selected? I'm on a Mac with Chrome (latest, no updates available).
Repo steps:
1. Select a few cells (⌘ + click) or an individual cell
2. Try unselecting (⌘ + click) those same cells clicked in #1
3. Cell is not unselected
Even when I joined the team, we never discussed trust and what we can do to be a more trustworthy team. It was always centered around how can we be more efficient in our deliverables.
This is the video I usually reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJdXjtSnZTI