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Backend Manager Interview Experience - San Jose, California

March 1, 2022
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interviewer:

  • Interrupted every few seconds, so I wasn't able to finish a single sentence.
  • Interrupted my "back of the envelope calculations."
  • Interrupted and had difficulty understanding everything related to regions, AZs, DRs, etc.
  • Believed that everything must be synchronous to avoid data loss.
  • Believed that performance is only about the minimum number of requests.
  • Believed that UUIDs are ordered and interrupted me multiple times when I tried to explain distributed ID generation, stating that he "knows the answer."
  • Interrupted any attempts to draw high-level designs before going into details.
  • Was not familiar with very basic terminology, like DLQ, stating, "You didn't state that a queue will be used."
  • On the note "we will use structures similar to lists in Redis," interrupted and said I'm going to use Redis.

I'm a bit confused with this experience.

Questions

Design Twitter's architecture in full scale.

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