derekhuangJul 10, 2026
Perplexity infra round wrecked me
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how deep into k8s do they go, like just concepts or actual yaml stuff
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from what I saw it was more concepts and metric selection, nothing about writing manifests
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how was the mint.com round, did they want full architecture or just high level
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mostly high level, ingestion and normalization was the focus, didn't get super deep into storage
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perplexity bar is no joke for a company this new tbh
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Hey, I wonder if there's anything at all you could share about the DFS coding round? Any pointer or part you remember? Would seriously appreciate it
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wait they actually draw the metrics graphs for you? never heard of a round like that
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yeah same happened to me, felt more like a whiteboard debugging session than coding. caught me off guard too
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