Process
The phone screen was surprisingly brief, lasting only about 20 minutes, but focused heavily on technical concepts.
I was asked to design a distributed rate limiter for an LLM inference API, which I had practiced on PracHub during my prep.
The technical rounds that followed were more in-depth, delving into system design and behavioral questions, but the earlier prep really paid off.
In the end, I received an offer, which I decided to decline as I felt it wasn’t the right fit for me.
Questions
Design a distributed rate limiter for an LLM inference API
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