#Timeline?

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regal holly
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Hey, what was your timeline? And how was the system design for the final

harsh crown
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I had final today, first interview a week and a half before that, phone call a week before that and oa idk

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System design was tough for sure

regal holly
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Nice, would System Design Primer or Grokking be good resources to study before hand? (not that i'm guaranteed to make it to the final)
And for the technical, was it a leetcode style (med or hard) question or OOD? Or was there networking/OS stuff that people have mentioned they were asked about in the past

harsh crown
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I have no idea tbh I did not study

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Technical wasn’t really LC style it was pretty easy then expanded into lowish level system design

regal holly
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Thanks, and congrats on the offer

harsh crown
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For sure, good luck

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Oh, I did actually read designing data intensive applications over the summer and that helped

regal holly
little yacht
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@harsh crown how should you prep for the low level system design in technical round, and also ^

harsh crown
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I don't want to give too many specifics just in case but I know before the interview I had heard that Optiver cares about threading and networking understanding and that ended up being true. I didn't have a lot of academic experience with any of this but I understood it enough to pass ig

signal spear
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I've been going back over TCP vs. UDP, multicasting/broad/uni, p2p vs. client-server, etc.

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and also things like concurrency (locks/mutex/semaphores, etc.)

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are there any other things I can do to prepare? I'm really damn anxious haha.

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also any tips on what they're looking for (can be super general, not trying to make you break the nda)

harsh crown
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with all of that you should be fine. Just keep doing what you're doing

signal spear