Senior Principal Engineer Interview Experience - United States
Process
P70 candidate:
5 stages:
- System Design
- Coding
- Architect Craft
- Leadership
- Values
Received a message from a recruiter on LinkedIn. Had a normal recruiting call, followed by a second recruiter who went over what was expected on system design.
Studied system design for a week, covering everything from chat/fileshare/streaming platforms/search engines/web crawlers.
Questions
I got to the system design question, which was about a web crawler I had studied for. It was a custom web crawler where you could submit a list of URLs (100 URLs max), and it would find all images on any pages associated with those URLs.
However, this was more of a code design question. They didn't care about throughput, storage capacity, endpoint security, load balancing, or the flow of data through the system. They provided three endpoints and wanted me to design the crawler itself: how it would crawl the pages and find the images.
It was more akin to pseudocode, but with graphical boxes. This was not what I was expecting or prepared for.
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