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“My system design round was literally, “You’re a Netflix subscriber, you forgot your password. Design everything that happens after you click the forgot password button,” including all the behind the scenes flow and edge cases.”
“What was very unusual is they didn’t give me any tooling to draw the system design, so I just sketched it on a piece of paper and talked them through it, then we got into this oddly deep debate about whether hover-over history should count as a recommendation signal.”
“Netflix’s system design was way more conversational than I expected. We didn’t draw architecture at all, and it felt more like an interview with a PM about a real unsolved team problem than a classic design round.”
