Design exercise before a principle level role I'm a senior/principal UX designer with 15 years of experience currently interviewing for a principal-level role. The company sent me a design exercise brief and something about it is nagging at me. They provide a scenario for phase 1. They even included screenshots of their actual product UI and asked me to integrate the feature into their existing experience. Phase 2 of the brief extends this to a cross-company sharing version. Here's what's bugging me: this isn't a fake scenario. This is a real, unsolved product problem for their actual platform. They're an interview services company. A talent reserve feature would be a legitimate addition to their core product. They say prep should take no more than 2 hours, but between reading the brief, thinking through stakeholder needs, and sketching 2-3 directions, I went well past that. And the output is genuinely useful product thinking. I'm not opposed to design exercises in principle. I get it.…