process SoFi waitlist

[vale arch]

after final interview?

[obsidian wind]

Yes, I waited for a whole week after final, and I was told I am on the waitlist

my recruiter told me there may be more openings next week

[vale arch]

oh. hopefully something works for you. what kind of coding questions did they ask you at the final if you dont mind me asking

[obsidian wind]

not that difficult, however the system design round was very interesting

I did not expect a full system design round

it's about kafka backup and recovery

[vale arch]

man this is so different from the two sum they asked me last year

[obsidian wind]

I don't know as I always went through challenging interviews, maybe the interviewers just don't like my face and wish to embarrass me. JK

[lethal timber]

For which team please?

[obsidian wind]

collections

[young crow]

Wow interesting that they ask distributed in ng system design

This is very very rare

Not sure if they expect you to talk about consistent checkpoint/logging, replication and 3pc stuff

This is hard for new grad

[valid jackal]

so the sd round is real sd, not OOD?

[obsidian wind]

no, it's more about data synchronization with backup with message broker and cache

I assume the team focuses more on kafka

[valid jackal]

makes sense

[obsidian wind]

and some other basic discussions like scaling and system complexity

[valid jackal]

location btw?

SF?

[obsidian wind]

I may be assigned to a different location/sub-team as the recruiter told me to wait for more openings so I am not sure about the location...

[valid jackal]

ic

[vale arch]

last year it was OOD for me lmao

freshman level shit

[valid jackal]

yea bar changed ig

[lethal timber]

thanks