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by VirusNewbie 530 days ago
No, they were not smart engineers. one literally interrupted me to say “you can’t solve this using recursion, you need a for loop”. I clarified if they meant for stack space reasons and they said “no, it just doesn’t work recursively”.

The system design round, they got confused with some basic queueing concepts. It was a shit show.