Thoughtworks Senior Applications Developer interview questions

I applied for Senior Application Developer (Java). Interview process took close to 3 months, which included hackerearth coding test, coding assignment, telephonic interview and then face-to-face interviews. The in-person interviews (3 of them) were ALL about design skills. Sometimes, it felt like interviewers already had some answer in mind which I was being pushed towards that. I advice to 1. clarify the requirements completely, if not provided, state the assumptions 2. do not give multiple answers based on use-cases. state an assumption and give answer only for that (to the point) and move on. 3. skip issues like scalability, future requirements (extensibility) etc. focus on modeling only based on given requirements. 4. can completely skip nitty gritties of java, concurrency, etc. 5. read a lot of design problems (focus on loose coupling, event driven design and asynchronous communication) 6. read 'Effective Java' and Design Patterns.