Comment by tayo42
1 day ago
The cargo culted system design interview is the new leet code. Just as bad in all the same ways.
Why would I design a global scale app without docs in 30 minutes?
At least coding interviews you can practice leet code and play the game.
In my opinion after having a long term job go bad, just always be interviewing. Then they won't be stressful, your ready to be jump and nothing feels like it's high stakes.
I still do bad at interviews though lol
You would design an app without docs in 30 minutes as step 1 of the process. On the job, of course, you'd then expand on it with reference to docs and such. But everyone I know who's good at designing systems starts with a basic from-first-principles draft, and I expect any senior engineer I work with to be able to discuss one.