RejectedOnsite

Wiki Crawler Design and a Talent Pool Rejection

LyftSoftware Engineer · Onsite · Sep 2026

The phone screen was the typical one: they give you an API that can fetch pages, and you write a wrapper that calls this external API to implement fetching by word count. Onsite, showtime. The system design was wiki crawling: how do you crawl all of the wiki's content and store it, while keeping it updated within a certain time window, for example no more than five days stale. The coding was the…

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