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A File System Design Screen With a Confusing Interviewer

HarveySoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2025

The file system question that's been going around the forum. Here's my report. Similar to a file system — implement two functions: addFile(String path): given a string like "path/to/somewhere/file.txt", store this file. getFile(String path): given "path/to/somewhere", return the content of file.txt; given "path/to", return the folder "somewhere". There wasn't much of a self-introduction, we jumpe…

Shared by a candidate · reported Jul 2025. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.