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The Hiring Manager gave me three hints during the system design. I missed all of them.

missed_hm_hints·May 26, 2026·85 points

SDE-2 (Backend)·Onsite·2026

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what went wrong in my amazon sde 2 interview and what you can learn 5fe81ce68195

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