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Round 2 focused on High-Level Design of a voice transcription platform at scale (100K recordings/day), covering pre-signed S3 uploads, async job queues, worker retry logic, and failure handling. Round 3 was a hiring manager conversation about fit and long-term interests. Key takeaways for preparation include LLD fundamentals, rate limiting algorithms, async architectures, and being able to discuss past work in depth. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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