Think scale. My sys design question was a bot web crawler that follows each Wikipedia link and downloads every page once. Don’t go off on some fancy solution, make it simple and take your queue from the interviewer on if you need to optimize. My problem was I tried to implement some spanning tree algorithm that was way too complex for the problem at hand and didn’t solve it any better than just a simple brute force approach.
eBay martinwFeb 12, 2019
Did you get an offer?
F5 Networks WGQH01Feb 12, 2019
No, missed on the system design and coding. I didn’t know system API calls by memory, had to pseudo code them out. Expectation for PE is pretty high on POSIX understanding
Think scale. My sys design question was a bot web crawler that follows each Wikipedia link and downloads every page once. Don’t go off on some fancy solution, make it simple and take your queue from the interviewer on if you need to optimize. My problem was I tried to implement some spanning tree algorithm that was way too complex for the problem at hand and didn’t solve it any better than just a simple brute force approach.
Did you get an offer?
No, missed on the system design and coding. I didn’t know system API calls by memory, had to pseudo code them out. Expectation for PE is pretty high on POSIX understanding