Katkat
Onsite

An Onsite Design Round That Never Quite Clicked

ShopifySoftware Engineer · Onsite · Apr 2026

Phone screen File system question — needed to support ls/cd/add/remove. All AI-written. Heard back a day or two later that I passed. Onsite Coding: LRU, also AI-written. Didn't feel like there was a fail point there. Past project — they wanted the most recent project, so I didn't bring my most complex one, but it still had some complexity to it. Life story was pretty standard too. Design (maybe t…

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