Told my system design was weak — the one round I thought I crushed
SDE II·Onsite·2026
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"That felt great is a flag to interrogate" — I am going to think about this for a while. My self-assessment after interviews is clearly not calibrated.
Breadth over depth is such a common trap in system design. Touching everything and sounding fluent hides whether you actually understand the hard tradeoffs.