My interview journey for the Staff Engineer position at Outreach began with the first round, where we started with a brief discussion about my current and past work experiences. Following that, I was presented with the main technical challenge: to design a key-value store that supports set(key, value), get(key), delete(key), undo(), and redo() operations. I felt confident in my approach and was able to solve it quickly, paying close attention to the completeness of my solution and thoroughly covering all edge cases. A key takeaway from this round was the importance of clarifying assumptions upfront, a tip I definitely kept in mind. The feedback I received for this round was positive, which was encouraging.

Moving on to the second round, it was a dedicated System Design session. We began by reviewing some of my previous projects, which led into the core problem: designing a multi-tenant chat application. I presented my approach, but unfortunately, I was rejected after this round. I'm still unsure about the specific reasons for the rejection from this round, as I thought my design covered the necessary aspects.