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Hey, I'm software engineer at Microsoft, with 8+ years of experience. Here we are talking about F(M)AANG big tech interviews: leetcode, system design and corpo life.

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Oookay, now I hit System Design problem I am not able to solve(partially). Problem: Design Messenger, but not pussy Whatsapp with 250 user/chat, but rather gigachad Telegram scale with 200k user/chat. I already consulted with 3 principals, 2 of them from…
Omg, 35 likes, will do within the next 1-2 weeks, and with simple POC. I think this is good traction.

First finish interviews article that I promise for a long time, and then switching to Messenger.
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Even bigger bullshit that I advised to not solve.

https://leetcode.com/problems/find-all-possible-stable-binary-arrays-ii/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-03-11

#daily #hard
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Easy problem for bitwise operations. Go and collect your coins

https://leetcode.com/problems/complement-of-base-10-integer/submissions/1944999786/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-03-11

#daily #easy
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For people who straight away are taking phone when building the project, or waiting for agent to finish the prompt task

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clad-labs

This is sooo zoomer zoomer thing😁 I caught myself going to threads while waiting for cursor, but I forcefully make myself to not do that.
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asked gpt to generate thumbnail for article.... who is this gigachad Andrii?
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Not bad problem, but pretty hard (for me), but it is graph related problem therefore - I like it

https://leetcode.com/problems/maximize-spanning-tree-stability-with-upgrades/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-03-13

#daily #hard #pattern
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I'm not sure about this problem. It requires a bit of math, but overall, not bad

https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-number-of-seconds-to-make-mountain-height-zero/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-03-13

#daily #medium #nopattern
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Oookay, now I hit System Design problem I am not able to solve(partially). Problem: Design Messenger, but not pussy Whatsapp with 250 user/chat, but rather gigachad Telegram scale with 200k user/chat. I already consulted with 3 principals, 2 of them from…
This one is not forgotten, today I am coming back to Dublin and will start working on the article. Since it got like record (53!!!) I will also add a bit of visuals for system design (God blesses AI agents).

Your opinion and feedback is really valuable.
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Bullshit a bit in a sense that 99.999% this will never be needed in real interview, as it is math and specific theorem needed.

Sorry, I'm after Kinedryl, so I'm still flying high after the flight to Dublin, I can't really grasp the math. My advice - skip this nonsense for now.

https://leetcode.com/problems/fancy-sequence/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-03-15

#daily #hard #nopattern
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People generally don't like this q, but keep in mind it can be solved as bruteforce

https://leetcode.com/problems/get-biggest-three-rhombus-sums-in-a-grid/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-03-16

#daily #medium
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Basically no pattern here, just some unique trick (some people suggest you need to do 2 hards to understand the intuition, but I wouldn't agree with that fully). Added simple visual for building the intuition and solution explanation

https://leetcode.com/problems/largest-submatrix-with-rearrangements/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-03-17

#daily #medium #nopattern
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Good, pretty easy problem. Actually uses leetcode pattern, so highly recommended

https://leetcode.com/problems/count-submatrices-with-top-left-element-and-sum-less-than-k/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-03-18

#daily #medium #pattern
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I realised I am missing quite some details about TCP/IP stack under-hoods. One amazing thing about my team, as I mentioned once, a lot of ex-Google Staff Engineers. So my manager, who is exactly ex-Google staff guy BROUGHT me this book about it that he was…
Posting random quotes from the book to recall the fundamentals.

Some years ago as I was exploring tcp/ip stack practically, I created HTTP server using tcp layer, but I was wondering HOW CAN I write my tcp implementation. The answer is here: everything below tcp(inclusive) is kernel mode. So it is not that easy/impossible to replace it with your impl - so you got to work with socket() os api, and choose between udp/tcp.
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ahahhaha. The guy contacted my colleague in Linkedin with: "can you share the questions you have been asked during the interview".

He shared general recommendations and sent my article. Literally the same guy after 5 mins:
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Bruteforce works here, just emulate what is said. I'm looking forward to end these matrix problems, don't like that, they all are somehow cumbersome or something.

https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-absolute-difference-in-sliding-submatrix/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-03-20

#daily #medium #nopattern
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