> It’s extremely telling that when you spend time in tech forums most people dread system design questions as the harder side of interviewing for senior level S

> It’s extremely telling that when you spend time in tech forums most people dread system design questions as the harder side of interviewing for senior level SWE roles… Yes. It's absurd that anyone that can talk about this stuff at a basic level is seen as some sort of ultra-skilled professional. See also: the relatively small amount of chatter about this stuff in the blogosphere, where there's a million tutorials that amount to "here's how you run create-react-app" and about 3 that talk about even moderate system design topics.