Practice for an experienced-hire loop
If you have not interviewed in a few years, two things have changed: system design now expects cost and operations, and some loops have added rounds on how you work with AI. Placed has both.
What the loop usually looks like
- A phone screen with a coding problem.
- An onsite with coding, one or two system design rounds, and a behavioral round that digs into past projects.
- Increasingly, a round where you code with an AI assistant or are asked how you use AI at work.
This is the common shape, not any one company's process. Questions by company has what has been reported at each.
Where to start
You talk and draw on a component canvas. The interviewer sees the diagram, pushes back on it, and grades ten criteria including cost and operations.
Two questions on how you use AI in your work, where you do not trust it, and a time you decided not to use it.
Pick questions by competency or by the company that asks them. The interviewer follows up on scope, tradeoffs and what you would do differently.
What changes for you
- Your plan includes all five rounds and your report compares the score to an experienced-hire bar.
- Real mode in system design removes the hints for an unhelped score.
- Paste a job description before a round and the questions are tailored to it.
Get a plan up to your interview date
One session for each practice day: which round, how hard, and about how long.