**Experience**: 10+ YOE\nPosition: Senior SWE level (E5 or E6 presumably)\nDate: July 2020\n\nTechnical Phone Screen:\nhttps://leetcode.com/problems/product-of-array-except-self/\nQuestion 2 involved designing an iterator around K sorted arrays\n\nVirtual Onsite:\nCoding Round 1:\nhttps://leetcode.com/problems/string-to-integer-atoi/\nhttps://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-remove-to-make-valid-parentheses/\n\nCoding Round 2:\nhttps://leetcode.com/problems/average-of-levels-in-binary-tree/\nhttps://leetcode.com/problems/set-matrix-zeroes/\n\nBehavioral + Coding Round\nThe usual scripted "tell me about a time.." questions.\nCoding question was a simple tree problem, printing all root-to-leaf paths.\n\nSystem Design Round 1:\nDesign an API for client-side file sharing\n\nSystem Design Round 2:\nAssuming a streaming music service like Spotify or YouTube, design the mechanisms for generating, managing, and propagating a user\'s favorites.\n\n**Post-Mortem:**\nMade it through the coding rounds (have done 600+ LC problems). Big thumbs-down on getting the Set Matrix Zeroes problem as success here depends soley on whether you\'ve seen the ad-hoc trick before. Underprepared for behavioral and misprepared for system design. Behavioral round in particular felt very robotic and scripted from the interviewer\'s side and incoherent from my own, felt little of value was communicated. Spent too much time reviewing technical distributed system concepts (which I don\'t build or interact with on my my current job) and less time on practicing how to elaborate upon design questions that are not merely vague, but completely under-determined.

Experience: 10+ YOE\nPosition: Senior SWE level (E5 or E6 presumably)\nDate: July 2020\n\nTechnical Phone Screen:\nhttps://leetcode.com/problems/product-of-arra