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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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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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Amazing friday pre-working vibe today. After dark winter, sun feels COOL.
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This will be my peak time, my prime, someday… ofc if AI wont replace me
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Easy problem. This week I feel myself as in my old 2018-2019 transposing matrices every single day, the only thing that is off is that back than I was using c++ in uni.


https://leetcode.com/problems/flip-square-submatrix-vertically/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-03-21

#daily #easy
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Let's go, 5k coins, only 1500 left till LC cap
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Posting random quotes from the book (tcp/ip by Stevens) to recall the fundamentals.

Packet wrapping/unwraping reminder
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Good DP problem, I recommend it. There is slightly different (potentially simpler) problem that might be good to solve(check comments)

https://leetcode.com/problems/maximum-non-negative-product-in-a-matrix/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-03-23

#daily #medium #pattern
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A bit strange problem, but definitely not hard, just a bit cumbersome.

https://leetcode.com/problems/construct-product-matrix/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-03-24

#daily #medium
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Conceptual question, do you know what is "upstream" and what is "downstream" services/components in terms of dependencies or in scope of who calls whom?
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Tomorrow will post the answer and explain why so.
As I typically saw a lot of confusion when 2 persons are talking about opposite things
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Today one of the easiest medium problems I have ever met in leetcode. But I'm scared of this "I", probably tomorrow we gonna have "II" and I'll be fucked

https://leetcode.com/problems/equal-sum-grid-partition-i/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-03-25

#daily #medium #nopattern
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Every single CEO after this AI nonsense slope collapses and their vibe coded apps start breaking apart:
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As I said yesterday, today's daily is really hard and really cumbersome, don't recommend, skip it and have a nice Thursday.

https://leetcode.com/problems/equal-sum-grid-partition-ii/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-03-26

#daily #hard #nopattern
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Conceptual question, do you know what is "upstream" and what is "downstream" services/components in terms of dependencies or in scope of who calls whom?
The first one is correct.

Typically I have heard phrases like "the error should be happening somewhere upstream" and I was sometimes confused upstream is our dependency, or our clients?

btw, arrow means service1 calls (knows about) service2.

Remember this perfect analogy from one of the principals from Microsoft: imagine lake, service3 is on top, it pours the water (http response / data) downstream.
Service2 is malfunctioned (starts throwing shit to the lake flow) - ALL the downstream services {service1} (clients / dependents) are going to be affected. Upstream services are good as shit cannot go up, it goes only down, to the ground.

Really hope it helps. So downstream - dependents, upstream - dependencies
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