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royal osprey Oct 12, 2021, 1:34 PM

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congrats

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how hard was ur final

vast shuttle Oct 12, 2021, 1:42 PM

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For the most part pretty standard. The system design round went though, went into a lot of details. def the most challenging bit in the final

royal osprey Oct 12, 2021, 1:55 PM

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what do u think prepared you most for that? i haven't studied any system design this interview season so im wondering what the min. effective study set is for it; probably grokking?

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also did u get like LC meds or hards or what

midnight yarrow Oct 12, 2021, 2:29 PM

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Yea also wondering what the difficulty of lc questions is?

vast shuttle Oct 12, 2021, 5:55 PM

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LC easy-mid. The interviewer was not too concerned with using the best algo and run time etc. It was more about correctness & completeness. This was also stressed in their Karat interview. I felt the karat algo question was harder than the final one lol. Idk.

royal osprey Oct 12, 2021, 6:40 PM

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i see, that's very promising

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did u do front end? or backend? or what

midnight yarrow Oct 12, 2021, 6:40 PM

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prayge

vast shuttle Oct 12, 2021, 7:43 PM

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About system design, I've had some professional experience before, and I also had a course in college that made us build different applications using lots of different AWS services, and using Kafka, ElasticSearch, NoSQL and SQL Dbs etc. So, I had some working knowledge that I could pull from. This helped me the most.

I did not read grokking the system design interview/system design interview. But I've heard good things. They were on my todo list, and I still intend to read them. I did watch some GKCS sys design yt videos, but idk - they are useful and fun to listen to, and the concepts make sense, but I often end up not recalling all the details he goes through etc. Practice is the most imp to do here. The stuff you encounter while building a distributed ensemble (however cheap and silly it is) is the most important thing to do.

Also, the premise for the system design questions was a common one.

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I interviewed for backend

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I know a friend who interviewed for frontend

royal osprey Oct 12, 2021, 9:02 PM

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oh yeah so yeah you knew what you were doing from experience, that's wonderful

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The stuff you encounter while building a distributed ensemble (however cheap and silly it is) is the most important thing to do.
i see, thank you

royal osprey Oct 12, 2021, 9:02 PM

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vast shuttle I interviewed for backend

ah okay dope i'm doing frontend

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do you think ur gonna accept?

vast shuttle Oct 13, 2021, 3:42 AM

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All the best!
I think I will

royal osprey Oct 13, 2021, 12:34 PM

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thanks!

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aye nice

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congrats again thats wild o_o

vast shuttle Oct 13, 2021, 4:28 PM

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thanks! 😄

royal osprey Oct 13, 2021, 4:32 PM

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yw :D

midnight yarrow Oct 13, 2021, 4:32 PM

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@royal osprey is your final scheduled already?

royal osprey Oct 13, 2021, 4:32 PM

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no

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i haven't heard back

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after i filled out the google form post-phone

midnight yarrow Oct 13, 2021, 4:33 PM

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ah ok, good luck!

royal osprey Oct 13, 2021, 4:33 PM

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danke

midnight yarrow Oct 16, 2021, 7:25 PM

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@vast shuttle what is the foundation interview btw? Resume stuff or something else?

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