Nobody became a great engineer by grinding LC.
But everyone grinds LC because the gate demands it.
3-4 months of your life. For a 45-minute performance.
I built a way around it. 7 free 3-day passes. DM me.
Public coverage of Meta's Muse: personal agent with its own computer/VM, goal-driven, keeps working after you close the app. Browser/forms/tools; WhatsApp/IG/FB connect mentioned. Model: Muse Spark.
Interview angle: goals + state + tool computer, with approval gates.
Interview writeups vanish in random threads.
We keep anonymized reports with company, role, rounds & topics — 14 so far (Meta, Amazon, Datadog, Google, Anthropic…).
Use them to spot question shapes and story structure — not to memorize answers.
In system design, spend the first five minutes on constraints.
Users, traffic, consistency, latency — say them out loud and wait for a nod before you draw boxes.
Quiet assumptions sink more designs than weak components.