>Taking your system design example, a poorly-designed system can Sure, but I had 0 system design experience applying for a role with 0 system design responsibi

>Taking your system design example, a poorly-designed system can Sure, but I had 0 system design experience applying for a role with 0 system design responsibilities. No reason to expect I could design a system like that or that I would need to be able to for that role. I'm not saying that they're wrong necessarily. It's more a commentary on how there's a huge swath of companies with basically no entry level. You're expected to know CS fundamentals, a bunch of algorithms, and be able to design a highly scalable system.