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The interview was all about implementing a Snake Game (LeetCode question 353), give or take, Food location randomness will be talked about in the ending part of the interview. 1) Write (and talk about) a technical design of the game, the data, members, overall functionality. 2) Implement the code over IDE (screen share, not using the internet or AI tools). Food location is a STUB. 3) Draw a design of the food location randomness. Architecture interview: 1) Tell us about a project you implemented in details, prefer something complex that you know all the details about (deep dive). 2) Design in high level (no code) a db like a Redis Cluster, in memory, with persistence, high response time, fault tolerance, etc..
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Senior Backend Engineer

Interviewed at Silverfort

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Feb 1, 2024

The interview was all about implementing a Snake Game (LeetCode question 353), give or take, Food location randomness will be talked about in the ending part of the interview. 1) Write (and talk about) a technical design of the game, the data, members, overall functionality. 2) Implement the code over IDE (screen share, not using the internet or AI tools). Food location is a STUB. 3) Draw a design of the food location randomness. Architecture interview: 1) Tell us about a project you implemented in details, prefer something complex that you know all the details about (deep dive). 2) Design in high level (no code) a db like a Redis Cluster, in memory, with persistence, high response time, fault tolerance, etc..

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