AppsForBharat | Bad Experience | Sleepy Tech Lead with no interest in interview

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3 Apr 2026
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Summary

I had a first‑round interview with AppsForBharat where the recruiter promised a DSA round, but the tech lead asked me to design a feed‑like backend system. The interview ended after about 50 minutes without a clear resolution.

How it went

I had first round today with AppsForBharat. Recruiter told me it will be DSA round but when sleepy head tech lead came to call, he shared a LLD problem. Ok, that's fine, he asked me below question

Design the backend system for an Feed-like application that supports the following features:

  • Users can create accounts and follow/unfollow other users.
  • Users can create posts (image/video + caption).
  • Each post can be liked/unliked by users, and the system should maintain like count.
  • Each post can have comments and should show the total comment count.
  • Each user should display their follower count and following count.
  • Show Feed to user with all posts. (user will see followed user's post)

There was no mention how feed will work, also no real discussion, he was expecting some magic answer, I asked so many questions, I am not sure, generally LLD interviews should be more interactive in nature, how such below par people become tech leads in companies. He asked how it would scale for million of users, it cannot but that needs to be discussed in HLD if you are interested in HLD you can ask me to draw but

He closed the interview in 50 mins in which first 10 mins were just my past projects. If you are not interested in taking interviews just skip them, I am so frustrated right now with such people.

Questions asked (1)

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    Design backend system for a feed‑like application

    System Design

    Design the backend system for a Feed‑like application that supports the following features:

    • Users can create accounts and follow/unfollow other users.
    • Users can create posts (image/video + caption).
    • Each post can be liked/unliked by users, and the system should maintain like count.
    • Each post can have comments and should show the total comment count.
    • Each user should display their follower count and following count.
    • Show Feed to a user with all posts from users they follow.

    The interviewer also asked how the system would scale to millions of users.

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