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waxen galleon Dec 30, 2025, 5:00 PM

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Make sure you know your resume in and out and just be very personable! Ask questions and show that you’re genuinely interested!

plush lark Dec 30, 2025, 5:01 PM

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Thanks for the advice!

waxen galleon Dec 30, 2025, 5:12 PM

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Ofc, when is EM scheduled for?

plush lark Dec 30, 2025, 5:27 PM

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it's on Jan 7th

waxen galleon Dec 30, 2025, 5:28 PM

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Ah ok good luck

neat lake Dec 30, 2025, 5:39 PM

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how did you schedule it for january

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i swear it only showed december for me

plush lark Dec 30, 2025, 5:54 PM

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neat lake i swear it only showed december for me

all the dates until mid jan was available when i selected the time slots

plush lark Dec 30, 2025, 5:54 PM

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neat lake i swear it only showed december for me

how was the interview for you?

neat lake Dec 30, 2025, 5:54 PM

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i think it went really well!!

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my interviewer was really nice

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it was purely resume stuff

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why i did certain things, how i interacted in team dynamics

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what decisions i made and argued for and how i approached it

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was very behavioral

real copper Dec 30, 2025, 5:56 PM

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neat lake i think it went really well!!

aww cute

plush lark Dec 31, 2025, 2:04 AM

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neat lake was very behavioral

I see. Thank you!

neat lake Dec 31, 2025, 2:16 AM

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But that’s supposedly not the norm

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Expect to go into more technical depth

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resume drill and a system design question related to my past project
started with intros, then started the resume grill. he started asking me about my internship and what i did. he quite literally asked about every single technology on my bullet points under my internship. then dug deeper into it. asked about how it was designed, why certain technologies were used, what certain technologies do, why i made certain decisions, how i took feedback, and really tested for technical depth. then he did the same for my research project. asked about what my contributions were, how it works, etc etc
after doing a lot of research about em rounds, and going through one myself, i can definitively say that what they look for most is deep technical understanding, being able to talk about choices and tradeoffs, and being responsive to criticism. i also think having really strong answers for "why bloomberg" and "why cs" are really important. i saw how much they value culture, and how broadly they are interviewing. kind of safe to assume that they interview so broadly because they're looking for people who are both technical, and also align in personality
https://systemdesignschool.io/primer

System Design Primer

System Design Primer is a comprehensive guide to system design interviews. It covers the main components of system design, how to solve system design problems, and how to prepare for system design interviews.

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Someone else sent this to me

#I have a final round coming up with the