u/la-Crow-10 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Could you elaborate on this? Its common for people in tech to say the answer doesnt matter, its the process of problem solving, but in my experience, everyone i know who passed meta and others \*had\* to get the right answer for coding and design, yet ive never seen someone give
u/michaelnovati replied ·
Coding is a whole different strategy - you do need a right answer. Either a good answer with super clean code, or an optimal answer with at least good code.
System design I would say, you can't have wrong answers. Like if you say confidently you need to do X to solve some scaling issue and X is objectively wrong, you will fail.
But there's more wiggle room in "right" because there are many altitudes going on. Being right you need a load balancer but wrong in the load balancer strategy/technique is kind of a mixed bag. Some problems are more universally "solved" and have a simpler answer, and some are more complex and don't.