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Abhishek Yadav

Full Stack. Full Spe... • 17h

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 de

Abhishek Yadav

Full Stack. Full Spe... • 17h

Here’s the problem: without context, there is no single right answer. If the DB is slow → you optimize queries or add replicas. If downstream services are slow → you add timeouts or circuit breakers. If traffic is bursty → you might introduce Kafka for buffering. Each solution fits a different problem. Jumping to “Kafka” without clarifying is like prescribing medicine without diagnosing the patient.

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Abhishek Yadav

Full Stack. Full Spe... • 17h

At the end of the day, interviews should reflect real-world problem-solving. And in the real world, no engineer says “let’s use Kafka” without first understanding what’s wrong. 👉 Curious — have you ever had an interview where the interviewer seemed more clueless than you? How did you handle it?

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