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A go-to architecture topic of mine for backend engineer interviews is to design a webhook system (the push side). I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of it because depending on the person’s experience dealing with a running production system, I’d get varying level of detail unprompted and that usually is a nice proxy for depth of experience.

It turns out my interview question is now a SaaS!

Kudos on the launch OP. This is a much needed service and it’s one of those things that once you see exist you go d’oh, why didn’t we have something like this all this while.



I'm stealing this interview question, haha. :P

Thanks a lot, yeah, there are so many moving parts and pitfalls. I think that what makes it a good question, also makes it a good service (I hope).


Square had a similar interview question but it was more along the lines of how to keep a socket open to a financial services company. Lots of the same issues.




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