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What kind of position were you applying for that they asked you this very interesting question?
by slammm 8y ago
What kind of position were you applying for that they asked you this very interesting question?
- nostrademons 8y agoFrontend software engineer. Latency management is included in front-end engineer's job (because most of the time, it's Javascript's fault), so debugging something like this would not fall outside of the job description. My interviewer was also a frontend software engineer. Both of us ended up doing more general-SWE/TL jobs later on, though (by coincidence, I ended up on the same team as her a year and a half later). I doubt that they would ask the same question now - for one, most Chinese queries are served out of datacenters in Southeast Asia now (at least when I left; if I believe the Project Dragonfly news I hear about on HN they may be served from inside China), so there's no trans-Pacific cable hop. The Chinese population has also gotten a lot more access to broadband & high-bandwidth mobile connections in the decade since this interview.