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by stackbutterflow
1536 days ago
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Some people say that Leetcode is nothing more than rote learning. Some disagree and I disagree. There's a minimal amount of rote learning that helps but you need more than that. On the other hand "system design" interviews are...strange? You, someone who never built something at the scale of these giant tech companies, are being asked to come up on the spot with a design for a system that'd scale to billions of users. There's a 100% chance that if you were to attempt building such systems and you'd never done it before, you'd discover holes in your original design left and right. Leetcode tests your logic, how you think, your IQ maybe. But system design interviews consists in regurgitating knowledge that you've crammed in your head by studying books/articles/videos on system design. It's closer to reciting poetry than problem solving. In my experience it could be replaced with multiple choice questions and you'd get the same result. What am I missing? |
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