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Re:Facebook senior software engineer interview by permille42 on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @09:51PM (#25666699)
I had the same experience. They only asked about things I haven't focused on or cared about in over 20 years.

The person on the other side of the design interview also seemed very inexperienced and wasn't able to follow things that would be obvious and simple to anyone who has actually done system architecture.

Re:Facebook senior software engineer interview by fatnoah on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:52AM (#25748483)
>...things that would be obvious and simple to anyone who has actually done system architecture

Load balancing web servers was one of those that almost got me in trouble. I just assumed that any sane web infra would balance load.