Frontend · Junior · System design

Imagine you need to build a search box with suggestions, like a search engine has. How would you design it on the frontend?

~10 min by voice

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They're checking whether the candidate can think of a frontend feature as a system: saving requests, handling response races, thinking through UI states, keyboard support and accessibility, not just "an input plus fetch".

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The interviewer will ask this question and listen. Think out loud and ask for a hint if you need one. When you're done, pause or tap “That's my answer”. In about a minute, your score and the points you covered show up here.

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