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Re:Algorithms you should know before you take system design ... by fendy3002 on Thursday August 11, 2022 @08:02PM (#32433317)
Only if the interviewer cooperates with candidate. In my past cases, some interviewers are just nuh-uh or "let's continue" or just keep saying the original ambiguous requirement without stating additional requirements or giving any feedback.
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Re:Algorithms you should know before you take system design ... by btilly on Thursday August 11, 2022 @08:47PM (#32433605)
Some interviewers like to move the goalposts. If I encounter those, I'll go ahead and give the simplest solution and state a general idea of what its limits are. Then when the goalposts are moved on me, I can iterate on the design for the new rules.

If an interviewer cannot tell my design skills from that, then I figure that the company failed, not me.

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