Reddit Experience · Jul 2025 · San Francisco

I did it WAHOO YEAH

Backend System Design
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Graduated spring 2023, laid in bed depressed for a year and a half doing nothing and taking horrible care of myself. Started with baby steps going to the gym for routine then added in some leetcode, p

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Graduated spring 2023, laid in bed depressed for a year and a half doing nothing and taking horrible care of myself. Started with baby steps going to the gym for routine then added in some leetcode, personal projects and system design. After 8 months of grinding every day and about 35 interviews I finally landed a dream position as a founding backend engineer at an SF startup! I started from nothing and rebuilt it all, I am so proud of myself. It gets better guys, keep ur chin up :)

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