Meta

System design interview. Design a Twitter-like app. It was an iterative question; we went back and forth on a few topics. I remember the interviewer tried to ask about the difference between very popular people and common people.

Phone interview. Two LeetCode easy/medium problems. Engineer was difficult to understand and completely disinterested. They stated my solution was wrong due to (ridiculous) constraints they had imposed on the problem and did not offer any hints aft

The entire process usually takes 3–8 weeks, depending on scheduling and the specific role. Coding interviews heavily emphasize common DSA topics such as arrays, strings, trees, graphs, BFS/DFS, heaps, hash maps, and dynamic programming. System design