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Re:A Senior Engineer's Guide to the System Design Interview by Naracion on Friday March 03, 2023 @04:10AM (#35007415)
(coming from the standpoint of a historically non-technical individual contributor who is leaning towards technical now, and asking because I want to learn):

But isn't that exactly why you as an interviewer would pose a problem, set up the context that is potentially similar to the work your project would require, and see how the interviewee navigates that?

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Re:A Senior Engineer's Guide to the System Design Interview by Swizec on Friday March 03, 2023 @11:06AM (#35011379)
Yes, it is. I would want to know how a person solves my problems.

And I sure would hope they bring all their experience to bear! Just because they learned about CDNs at their previous job and “everything is proprietary”, I don’t want them to suddenly forget how CDNs work.

Very little is actually unique between software businesses. We’re mostly just doing data bureaucracy.

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