The interview question made it clear it was a maximum of 6TiB. With this, one can assume it’s not growing yet still think the interviewer either doesn’t know this isn’t big data or that they want to test their knowledge.
Re:Big data is dead (2023)
by valenterry on Thursday May 30, 2024 @04:33AM
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From what the comment tells, the interview question said that the maximum IS 6TiB. There was no further information given, so I assume it didn't make any assumptions about how it might change.
Even if it would say "it will stay at 6TiB" I would probably prefer a senior candidate to briefly question it, such as "It is surprising that we know it will stay at 6TiB and if this were a real project I'd try to at least sanitycheck that this requirement is really correct, but for now I'll assume this is a given..."
At least if, as the interviewer, I told them to treat the challenge similar to a real request/project and not to not-question the given numbers etc.
Or, if you guess what the interview is aiming for, state the assumption and go from there "If we assume it's gonna stay at <10TB for the next couple of years or even longer, then..."
Then the interviewer can interrupt and change the assumptions to his needs.