GreyOrange Software Engineer interview experience

The main prompt I received was to design a backend data model for a social media platform that supports comments and comment likes at scale.

The questioning centered on how I would structure the entities and relationships, and what the design would need to handle as the system grows. I focused on modeling the core objects in a way that could support high-volume reads and writes.

I didn’t progress past that system design stage, and the rejection aligned with the sense that I couldn’t land the full scope they were looking for. The experience also made me realize how specific “at scale”