18.39The coding-interview trap: overengineering

Prompt:

“Take this JSON and save it as Salesforce Account.”

Don't immediately design:

Experience API
↓
Kafka
↓
Process API
↓
System API
↓
Batch Job
↓
Salesforce Bulk API

for one record.

Start simple:

Listener
↓
Transform
↓
Upsert

Then say what you would add for production requirements.

This shows judgment.