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This happened with my onsite interview as well. I was working on local, user-based systems and hadn't done anything with networking/web-scale/sharding/etc. I d

This happened with my onsite interview as well. I was working on local, user-based systems and hadn't done anything with networking/web-scale/sharding/etc. I did very well with data structure questions, and had one difficult interview and one question about sharding a globally scaled system. I had never dealt with anything on that scale, and didn't even know how to think about it. I realize that there was a gap in preparation, and I'm confident that that one interview out of 8 is what nixed my chances.

the_only_law 5y ago
> I realize that there was a gap in preparation I had a similar, but not the exactly same issue recently, and about 2/3s through the interview I was stopped and the interviewer kinda poked at my resume and successfully deduced that my prior work experience was just not at the level/scale the company was looking for. How do you prepare for that without having actually worked on that scale. Oddly, I ended up getting an offer for a different position after that though. I can read about subject X all I want, but I would never be confident enough in an interview at just that. And large scale applications isn’t something I can just something I can replace with a side project.