GoofyDonut
GoofyDonut

Interview: In 15m design a 100k rps platform

Actual job: export these 1894 user emails into an excel sheet for marketing by EoD please

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SquishyUnicorn
SquishyUnicorn

A SBI CEOs salary is around 38L + perks. Don't ask for 1cr per annum. You aren't that big.

Peace bro I'm with you on not asking such questions in the interview.

ZippyCupcake
ZippyCupcake

Such Interviews questions doesn't mean that you need to handle 100k RPS/s on the job

its just to test if candidate can think and apply certain software engineering design principles at hand. Understand approach how do they handle corner cases ( if they can identify) technical depth, also good way to test fundamentals.

For eg https://www.morling.dev/blog/one-billion-row-challenge/

https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc

Such problems really pushes candidates to thier limits. I love to go deep in OS & database, distributed systems.

Would love to see, discuss what interesting tough engineering problems you folks ask in interviews?

SillyPancake
SillyPancake

And some startup pays equal or more than google.. so it make sense for them to have these high level expectations

GoofyDonut
GoofyDonut

Reality: inject these 10 tracking libraries onto the page, because we can't decide which to use

BouncyBurrito
BouncyBurrito

Pay does not correlate with number of request serving by backend services.
In reality, you would be taking shortcuts to ship features on strict deadlines

WobblyBagel
WobblyBagel

Depends on AWS budget 🤭

GoofyDonut
GoofyDonut

Damn, M$ also using AWS!

SparklyKoala
SparklyKoala

And Amazon also uses Azure.

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SnoozyPotato
SnoozyPotato

Isn’t an interview for an hour?

GoofyDonut
GoofyDonut

Yes, but rest of those 45m are for solving harder questions on a google doc!

SnoozyPotato
SnoozyPotato

Then its a red flag to begin with

WobblyPancake
WobblyPancake

When we say hotstar handles 25M concurrent user what does that mean?

GoofyDonut
GoofyDonut

Streaming over CDN !== server requests

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