RejectedOnsite

Failed the System Design Round, One-Year Cooldown

LinkedInSoftware Engineer · Senior+ · Onsite · Aug 2026

Coding: LeetCode "Deadpool" and 272. SD: Post Search. The deep dive mostly focused on how to quickly figure out which posts contain a keyword, how to implement excluding a keyword (for example, a post must contain apple but must not contain banana), and how to rank the returned post results by keyword frequency. AI Coding: a roller coaster passenger-seating problem. You are given how many seats a…

Shared by a candidate · reported Aug 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.