I’ve got an interview coming up for a senior role on a UX engineering team (design system, component libraries, etc). The interview is just the standard set of backend system design and leetcode problems.
It’s a pretty big red flag to me that the skills being evaluated are so tangential to the actual job. It doesn’t give me any confidence that the people I will be working with have the skillset I consider important, or that the team and I will approach problems in a compatible way.
I suspect your fears are well-placed. Whoever is hiring this team has no idea how to hire for those roles and that suggests that those roles might not be valued within the larger company. Though sometimes the hiring manager has just lucked out and hired a great team so far. Still, will that team be listened to? Will that team be respected?
It’s a pretty big red flag to me that the skills being evaluated are so tangential to the actual job. It doesn’t give me any confidence that the people I will be working with have the skillset I consider important, or that the team and I will approach problems in a compatible way.