[mehh]

Yeah, I was tripped up in an interview at Meta on system design, we had a good discussion, but on my part I didn’t realise they expected an actual solution during interview. I mean, you’d have a gist of a solution but you wouldn’t tighten the screws until you’d gone through many rounds of stakeholder discussions and requirements refinement. I was way more experienced than the chap interviewing me, it just felt all a bit contrived, playing at architecture, memorise these patterns for these x scenarios.