Interviewers beware, prepare to be strung along and duped at the last moment. I was told I passed all my interviews with strong feedback, passed all my reference checks (which, what company asks for real reference checks in this day and age), had multiple meetings with managers for team placement, and even had a call scheduled with my recruiter to go over offer details. And then lo and behold the morning of she cancels the call with little warning and then doesn’t give me any update until I reach out first. And she then proceeds to tell me apparently leadership does not have full confidence in my “full picture” and they will not actually be giving me an offer. So be aware that you can do everything right and you won’t be told that you also have to pass some mysterious leadership vibe check or just blatantly lied to and the offer will never actually manifest. I wouldn’t be surprised if they actually decided to just go with an internal candidate or something.
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Had brief system design decision + coding interview through Karat. System design interview was more of what would you decide to use in this situation, and coding interview was similar to design problems in leetcode.
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Question 1
What will you do if third-party service consistently fails
Standard algorithm and data structures interview, over Karat. Medium difficulty level, make sure communication is solid and that you finish the problem. Sys design at the beginning, very brief high-level overview.