The Interview Loop
Recruiter Screen (30 min)
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Technical Loop (3-4 Rounds)
Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.
Interview Question Bank
Backend Engineer
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Technical
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medium
You have a slow SQL query that is timing out when fetching a user's asset metadata from a PostgreSQL database with 100 million rows. Walk me through your debugging and optimization steps.
#Database Optimization
#Indexing
#Query Execution Plan
Backend Engineer
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Technical
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medium
You notice a specific SQL query in your PostgreSQL database is taking 5 seconds to execute, causing API timeouts. Walk me through your exact steps to debug and optimize it.
#Database Optimization
#Indexing
#EXPLAIN ANALYZE
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