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Friday Fun Thread for January 10, 2025

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"Describe how you would implement a Twitter clone" is a fairly standard and easy interview question a senior software engineer should be able to answer to a reasaonable amount of detail. (The same question about Ticketmaster is significantly harder which would surprise most people outside the industry.)

Ticketmaster is way harder of course due to heterogeneity of the underlying data.