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tranquil folio Sep 20, 2025, 12:20 AM

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did u get asked to code it?

elfin hatch Sep 20, 2025, 12:20 AM

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its the ip firewall one

tranquil folio Sep 20, 2025, 12:20 AM

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mine they just asked for a brief overview

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oh ok

elfin hatch Sep 20, 2025, 12:21 AM

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that is a relief

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i hope

boreal gate Sep 20, 2025, 12:23 AM

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how far did you get

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I think if you explained your answer and it makes sense, it’s fine if you didn’t finish implementation

elfin hatch Sep 20, 2025, 12:25 AM

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just went through a testcase and explained what i would do for the follow up, thing is i didnt rly understabd the follow up and had some time to do it cause i finished the og q pretty fast

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idk if thats a red flag

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im cookjed

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yes

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yea i had no idea hpw to implement dat

boreal gate Sep 20, 2025, 12:27 AM

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did u talk about it

elfin hatch Sep 20, 2025, 12:27 AM

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yes

boreal gate Sep 20, 2025, 12:27 AM

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like the general strategy

elfin hatch Sep 20, 2025, 12:27 AM

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idk if i was making any sense tho lolll

boreal gate Sep 20, 2025, 12:28 AM

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prolly fine then but I guess interviewer dependent

tranquil folio Sep 20, 2025, 12:28 AM

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interviewer initials?

elfin hatch Sep 20, 2025, 12:28 AM

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yea he said at the end that i had a "solid understanding" (i did not)

tranquil folio Sep 20, 2025, 12:28 AM

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JX?

elfin hatch Sep 20, 2025, 12:29 AM

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bro why couldnt i be asked house robber

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or the bfs

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oh well

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glgl

tranquil folio Sep 20, 2025, 12:30 AM

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mind if i dm popcorn?

elfin hatch Sep 20, 2025, 12:30 AM

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imma be embarsed if i fail the phpne tech

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😭

tranquil folio Sep 20, 2025, 12:30 AM

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was curious ab ur sys design round and how to prep for it? I havent done many sys design and i just dont rly get how ppl fail it

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it kinda seems like u say the same shit every time

boreal gate Sep 20, 2025, 12:31 AM

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tranquil folio it kinda seems like u say the same shit every time

it’s like mid level design I heard

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not like the hld actual system deign

tranquil folio Sep 20, 2025, 12:31 AM

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what does that mean

elfin hatch Sep 20, 2025, 12:31 AM

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how long after phone tech screen did you hear back, some of my friends heard back same day

tranquil folio Sep 20, 2025, 12:31 AM

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im talking about the architecutre one

boreal gate Sep 20, 2025, 12:32 AM

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so like api design stuff yeah

boreal gate Sep 20, 2025, 12:32 AM

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elfin hatch how long after phone tech screen did you hear back, some of my friends heard bac...

it was a little less than a day for me

tranquil folio Sep 20, 2025, 12:32 AM

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what does that mean? Like just figuring out what apis a system needs?

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less than a day here as well

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is there any coding? Like for the apis?

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or like psuedo

boreal gate Sep 20, 2025, 12:33 AM

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the prep guide says pseudo

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i think

tranquil folio Sep 20, 2025, 12:33 AM

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shit fr

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what were ur initials

boreal gate Sep 20, 2025, 12:34 AM

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were they old or nah

tranquil folio Sep 20, 2025, 12:34 AM

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need to get that interviewer

boreal gate Sep 20, 2025, 12:34 AM

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im doomed

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fuck

tranquil folio Sep 20, 2025, 12:34 AM

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onsite

boreal gate Sep 20, 2025, 12:34 AM

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my sys design interviewer has been senior staff for like 10 years

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kms

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sure I haven’t taken it yet tho

desert stream Sep 20, 2025, 12:53 AM

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@tacit ice what was coding round like was it more debugging and unit testing or implementation

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