The Final Onsite Round Was Canceled on the Spot

Position: Senior Software Engineer, Core Product. The onsite was in San Francisco and was originally scheduled for 3 hours. Round 1: Live coding (1 hour) Practical coding, not LeetCode. It was a duplicate-files type of question: given a set of filesystem helpers, deduplicate files by their contents. The follow-ups kept digging into I/O and read optimizations. Round 2: System design (1 hour) A que…

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