Stealth Startup Software Engineer interview experience

• Blockchain design deep-dive — I was asked to describe blockchain design both conceptually and practically, covering scaling as the chain grows, data integrity, best-effort performance, gas pre-calculation, and how I’d handle tracing/monitoring plus high availability and disaster recovery.
• Same conversation, different result — The experience followed the same core prompt and technical depth; I still walked through the architecture trade-offs and operational concerns.

Outcome: One version of this path led to an offer, and the takeaway is that being strong in both protocol