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Onsite Undone by a Key-Value Store System Design Question

LinkedInMachine Learning Engineer · Onsite · Jul 2025

LinkedIn, AI track. I passed the technical screen before the layoffs, and it didn't get scheduled for onsite until this week. The hiring manager round is scheduled for before National Day — nothing much to say about that yet. After preparing for so long I was actually pretty confident, but today one of the system design rounds completely wrecked me. I'm not fully willing to accept that, but I'm s…

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