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Abhishek Yadav
Full Stack. Full Spe... • 2m
What to do when an interviewer won’t let you ask questions — a quick lesson I learned today. I had an interview recently where the interviewer asked me: 👉 “If a microservice is taking delay, how would you optimize it. Sounds like a good system design question, right? Except — I wasn’t allowed to ask any clarifying. That meant I had to answer with zero context: no information about whether the delay was from database queries, network latency, external APIs, or traffic bursts. I still tried — mentioned caching, query optimization, background jobs, and even Redis. But in the end, the interviewer simply said: “We’d use Kafka.”
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