My product architecture interview involved only api design for the whole time, is this normal? Most of it involved around the response and request structure. I tried to move the interviewer in other direction like db schema design etc but they kept on coming back to API design increasing the scope every time. Is this normal? There were no db schema design or backend services block diagram. #meta
It doesn’t indicate anything other than the interviewer wanting to focus on this aspect. It’s likely the interviewer has a lot of experience with API design being a contentious area in many of their projects so decided to focus there
If target level is <= E4, this is normal
Are you saying this based on meta experience or something else
Yes. I gave multiple mocks with Meta folks before the final interview so I have a good idea in general
I’m interviewing for E6 and that’s exactly how they described the product architecture interview, which is different than a system design interview. I don’t think it varies based on level. Product architecture is supposed to primarily be API and user focused. Did you hear back from Meta?
Did you hear back from Meta?
What was the question? Were there a lot of APIs? Hard to imaging 45 mins on just APIs and not even the Data Model.
Just one api