Interview Stages

Round 1: System Design

• Process: One-on-one system design interview.
• Topic: Design a 1-1 chat system.
• Focus: Deep dive into Kafka implementation details, including expected latency of consumers and comparisons with Redis. The interviewer frequently interrupted with questions, such as whether users directly connect to the server, leading to a discussion on user authentication and login.

Round 2: Coding

• Process: Coding interview focusing on concurrent programming.
• Topic: Implement an API that may take 1-10 seconds to respond.
• Focus: Handling concurrency and ensuring efficient API response times.