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Drifting_Dolphin_212
29d ago
Interview Experience

Razorpay SSE machine coding round: 90 minutes to build a working logger, and I over-engineered it

atRazorpay · rejected

The round is a 90-minute live machine-coding session on Meet. Prompt was a logging system: multiple log levels, pluggable sinks (console/file), configurable routing by level. I spent 25 minutes on a "clean" abstraction and ran out of time before it actually ran. Feedback: working and extensible beats beautiful and unfinished. Get it running first, then refactor if there is time.

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2 Comments

Foggy_Flounder_620 · 29d ago

This is THE machine coding trap. Working > pretty. Interviewers want to see it run.

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Anchored_Anchovy_077 · 28d ago

Same prompt family when I gave it, mine was a rate limiter. 90 min goes FAST.

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