Google rejection
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the hint thing affecting ratings is real and barely documented anywhere. did they tell you in the feedback or did you infer it?
feedback summary said 'needed guidance in round 1' which I took to mean hints were counted against me even though I solved it
what specifics did they push on for the caching SD? partitioning, consistency, or more client-side?
mostly consistency tradeoffs and node failure scenarios. I may have been too brief on cache invalidation policy
one LH can torpedo the whole loop at Google. brutal system. sorry it went that way.
If you get any hint, it's a negative impact on your score. I was also rejected even though I came up with solutions because the interviewer gave me hints; This is a trap.
passed my onsite without hints but my googliness round was what pulled the score up. that round is underrated