Just got asked to re-apply within a few months because of how I responded to design questions. LP was good, and technical was good, but how the f#@k do I get better at pie-in-the-sky Design questions?
Grokking system design interview. Pay for it. It's worth the money
I’ll buy it. Honestly, I’m just really irritated that I spent so much time and effort, grinding out leetcode, thinking of actionable LP’s, only to be given such flaccid criteria to improve on.
What is it? Is it an online course or a pdf?
What is what?
Sorry i meant the grokking system design.
Which level/position was this for?
SDE 2-3
Wat was the design question and how did u answer it? Cant help u if u dont give us the details
I had two design questions, I feel I answered them both well: One was how would you build a system to handle fluctuating loads. And another was how would you design a library to be used by others for handling files. First one was pretty simple, I first leveraged AWS for it all, got asked to do it without AWS and did so with a queue. I even thought ahead to mention that queue jobs if failed would have an exponential back off so we don’t DOS ourselves. The other question was pretty straightforward and I wrote it all out on the board without any issues.