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Nooks interview questions

2 practice questions in the style of Nooks's interviews, covering System Design, Coding & Algorithms.

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Katkat has 2 Nooks interview questions. The largest topics are Coding & Algorithms (50%) and System Design (50%). By difficulty: 100% medium. The most common round is Onsite (100%).

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  • Medium100% · 2

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  • Onsite100% · 2

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  • Software Engineer100% · 2

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  • How would you throttle a crawler?Medium

    This question evaluates competency in scalable distributed system design, including rate limiting, request scheduling, concurrency control, fault tolerance, backoff/retry strategies, deduplication, and observability for networked crawlers.

    NooksSoftware EngineerSystem DesignOnsite
  • Implement a BFS web crawlerMedium

    This question evaluates proficiency in breadth-first search and graph traversal concepts applied to web crawling, including handling duplicate links, hostname filtering, and tracking visited URLs.

    NooksSoftware EngineerCoding & AlgorithmsOnsite

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  • Web Crawler BFS Screen, Twitter Design Onsite, RejectedNooks · Software Engineer · Onsite · Feb 2026
    Rejected

    This is a small company in SF that does phone-sales tech (cold-calling/telemarketing technology). Phone screen: a BFS problem dressed up as a Web Crawler question. Follow-up: the BFS needs to make API calls — how do you avoid bottlenecks, DDOS attacks, and so on. Onsite: Live debugging: build a full-stack app for a "YouTube Party." This one was kind of fun — the problem is posted publicly on Gite…

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