Really open ended design question in phone interview
Feb 23
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Interviewer asked “how would you go about designing a feature?”
I kind of tried to tell the steps I read in grokking book. But the interviewer said the stakeholder is not giving any clear requirements/estimations and asked how would you deal with it. I said I will design with with some guessed numbers and monitor the system to understand the metrics like requests per sec, storage, etc and handle them.
I just got an email from recruiter saying it went well but looking for more relevant experience in designing systems. What did I do wrong?? Thanks
Tc: 150k
Yoe: 5
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It's fine to suggest solutions if you really can't get much out of the stakeholders, but the important part to get through is to clearly understand what you're solving.
XY problem is real.