I did a job interview today and showed one of my projects and its code, explaining some of the reasons why it's written the way it is.

Much of it is fairly straightforward and simple. That's fine, because it wouldn't really get a lot of advantage from more complexity. Even so, I felt almost ... embarrassed by the simplicity. It's not that I actually am, I think the code and overall project I showed is pretty good and something I'm proud of, it's just that explaining "yeah I just did it like this, pretty simple really" doesn't really sound all that impressive over "we integrated such-and-such fancy tools with the so-and-so pattern using the blockchain cloud nano-architecture running on o31h!"