[sethammons]

I want to share my interview fail story. It potentially cost me an annual salary that was jaw dropping.

My experience is designing and implementing HA distributed systems at high scale. I rode a unicorn and became a principal engineer after years of work. I conducted many hundreds of interviews as we grew, and specifically dozens and dozens of "implement an lru cache."

My interview question given to me? Yeah, implement an lru cache. My mind absolutely blanked. Like full blank. I can't even explain it. I had to start at first principals and made silly mistakes. I bumbled on the keyboard. I thought I was nervous before we started! Ha!