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System Design
- System Design Too Boring Does anyone else find studying for System Design Interviews more boring than leetcoding? I’m having a really hard time forcing myself through Grokking the System Design despite being unemployed. Ideally I would finish the course ASAP so I could start interviewing soon. What should my timeline realis
- vote Is grokking system design enough for sde2 system design interview? I want to interview for sde2 in other FAANG or unicorn companies. (Not now, probably wait for a year to reach 2 YOE) Not sure how to study for system design. Is grokking the system design course enough? YOE: 1 TC: 140k cad
- vote System Design There is a YouTube channel “System Design Interview “ , most of the people liked his videos and were expecting him to make more videos. Now he has a paid content , will you buy it ? https://systemdesigninterview.teachable.com/p/system-design-for-interviews-and-beyond TC:165K
- Is grokking the system design interview actually enough system design knowledge for a mid level dev? At a demanding mid level job at 3 yoe for distributed systems, if I know next to nothing else other than a programming language and grokking then is that enough? I have a degree in computer engineering as well but have forgotten a lot of the lower level stuff due to being a web dev. Already passed
- Monzo System Design Hey! Has anyone gone through the system design interview at Monzo? If yes, I would be grateful to get some insights around the system design question that was asked. Thanks so much! 🙏🏽
- Amazon system design interview L5 vs L6 Senior at Microsoft, just finished the loop at Amazon and was told it went really well. Come to find out that apparently this was the standard loop for L5 and not L6 and they want me to do one more system design interview for L6. Anyone know if this is normal/how much harder the L6 system design int
- FAANG system design interviews vs other system design interviews? What are the differences between FAANG system interviews vs other system design interviews (LinkedIn, Salesforce, Twitter etc)?
- link My Approach to System Design It is not an exhaustive list and might not work for everyone. Also it is not a one size fits all thing but I hope it helps you to draft a plan and figure out how to tackle the sys design. Resources: 1. https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer 2. https://github.com/binhnguyennus/awesome-s
- Square System Design Interview Weight Curious if anyone who's involved in interviewing at Square knows how the much system design interview factors into hiring decision for a mid-level engineer. I felt like I did really well on the 3 coding round and the past experience round but system design was just ok. I got tripped up on a couple o
- Square System Design Interview I’ve got an on-site coming up with Square where I was told I’ll be asked to design a hotel booking system for the design portion. From what I’ve seen, this is a standard question of theirs that they ask most candidate. Does anyone have recommendations on resources they found helpful to prep for this
- link Is System Design Primer enough for System Design https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer Have onsite next week.
- Looking for system design study partner Looking for system design partner for architect role. We can do zoom or white board discussions to learn from each other. TC 440K YOE 20
- Free System Design Interview Practice I want to record some good system design interviews for a YouTube channel. If you want to practice with me for free and willing to allow your interview to be recorded and put on the internet, feel free to DM or comment below with your experience and system design skill level. I have over 10 years o
- How to improve system design I just bombed my system design interview with Lyft. I had a very good coding round and was feeling confident then got grilled in the system design. How can I improve my system design interview skills? I missed 1-2 cases that I didn't consider and separated responsibility which shouldn't have done. A
- System design and Distributed Systems Hi, I am looking to learn Distributed Systems with a project and System design for interviews. I looked at it online and there are too many of them and moreover not streamlined. Can you kindly suggest a book/course so I can learn Distributed Systems, System design. TC: 100k Yoe:3
- Meta ML System Design I will pay 500 dollars to experience Meta folks who can help me with ML system design for a couple of hours. I am a ML engineer myself but I think interview performance is very loosely related to experience. It is more about how you present.
- vote Asked my system design interviewer if she was a UX designer (by accident) Grrr! Onsite was exhausting! Had like three interviews before the systems design round. After systems design question, muh brain was fried and they asked if I had any questions. LOL I said "yes ,what kind of design are you? UX?" 💥 🤯 ( In intro's she said she worked in design) I realized she may ha
- link Giving back - how I cleared L6 System Design - Part 1 Long term prep strategy Part 1 is out: https://www.teamblind.com/post/YA2RKEqY Coding Part 1 is out : https://www.teamblind.com/post/ikvVrRXa Part 3 is out : https://www.teamblind.com/post/qubF6fS2 Part 2 is out : https://www.teamblind.com/post/rBrt5bV8 Edit 6: I will be posting the rest/comment
- Failing System Design Interviews I have given a few on-site interviews(Atlassian, flexport, Nvidia, snowflake) till now and mostly failed at system design. Couple of things I realized I am not doing right 1. Not able to have a structured discussion. (I am working on this and building a template) 2. I don’t know how to solve the a
- Anyone want a free mock systems design interview? Hey guys, I recently started a YouTube channel focused on systems design concepts/preparation and was hoping to start conducting some mock interviews on there soon. If any of you are interested in appearing on there, I'm happy to give you a free mock systems design interview - I think it would be b
- Affirm System Design Is it normal for affirm to ask sql only system design questions? I was asked to design a popular fintech app but only the table/relations Probably bombed since I haven’t worked with relational dbs since college Tc 198k
- vote Meta System Design Interview I got this system design question at my Meta onsite (E5) where I was asked to design a price tracking application like camelcamelcamel.com. I answered most of the questions that the interviewer had, but I am not sure if I choose the right db. The requirement was to store price changes for up to 2 ye
- vote Facebook Messenger System Design When user A sends a message to user B. Two things need to happen 1. Message needs to be persisted in a db 2. Message needs to be pushed up to user B via their websocket connection if they are online. Which should happen first?
- System design prep Ddia is too long and talks a lot about history. What’s the most effective way to prep for system design interviews? #tech
- Blind75 equivalent for System Design Hi, What is the best resource for System Design interviews? I worked on the blind75 list but I have little experience with system design... TC 135k
- vote System design What’s the best system design resource?
- System Design Interview at FB I have done a lot of interviews at FB and have seen several patterns that can help people be more successful. Note: this is my personal observations. I think my observations might help people interviewing for E5 the most, and hopefully not just at FB but other tech companies as well. 1. You don't
- link Willing to help for system design. Hi all, I recently got offer from Facebook, Bytedance(TikTok), Goldman Sachs, Linkedin, Rakuten Viki. I used a unique technique for system design practice and found it very effective. I call this technique, interviewing myself :). Here are details - Make a list of questions you want to practice
- Suck at coding but excellent at system design I joined right after college and I was really good at coding back then. Last 2 years I became part of the team which was in the process of creating a new service that serves millions of people today. I actively contributed to the design of it and while doing that, I read many many system design bo
- System Design Prep I want to move out of defense but I suck at system design. Any advice/recommendations? TC: 🥜 YoE: 4
- System Design - USCIS H-1B lottery system Any idea how H-1B lottery system is/should be designed? TC 350K 4 YOE
- EM - System Design I have been preparing for system design for sometime now and my performance in interviews has been borderline. I understand the concepts. What I have as issue I guess is the flow of what needs to be discussed. I think I am missing prompting questions for myself which results in the lack of demonstra
- System design questioms Hi I am aware of common system design questions. But I wanted to see if people who might have interviews recently can tell some of the system design questions they faced in following companies: LinkedIn Uber Facebook Amazon Mongodb Doordash
- Failed every system design interview so far. Title says it all. Can someone please help how to improve? Never done system design in my life. I'm good at coding but because of system design I see my chances of job change very low. Any kind of help or guidance is appreciated. TC 48 Yoe 8
- System Design Preparation I am Applied Scientist L5 in Amazon. Recruiter in meta reached out to me for E5 Machine Learning Engineer position. He talked about 1 round of system design (distributed system) in addition to LC rounds. System design was not required for AS L5 in Amazon (at least I didn’t have). I wonder how long d
- Bad system design interviewers Had an on-site today at Salesforce. The person doing the system design interview was really not that good. It literally felt they were reading off a checklist and constantly dragging me all over the place arbitrarily. Anytime I broke out of the mold they couldn’t understand what I saw saying and con
- System design Can anybody share a concrete plan to prepare for system design in 1 year for me( I have no background)? I am currently at Microsoft titled software engineer but my work more towards operations. I want to look outside to be able to code and learn more rather than just poking around with mouse. I can
- System Design Anyone have any recommendations on books to read or YouTube series for learning system design/architecture from scratch?
- System Design - Logistic System I was recently asked this question in a system design interview - Design a delivery assignment system to automatically assign deliveries to delivery partners based on the following criterion: - . Nearest distance from source: The delivery partner’s geographical location should be the closest to th
- Meta system design follow up I just completed my onsite with meta - did well in coding and behavioral but system design didn't go great. I was asked to do a follow up interview for system design. Couple of questions: 1. Is this follow up intended to be for leveling purposes or is this a pass/fail test, or potentially both? 2.
- System design approx prep time. #L5 L5 level roles. How much time did you spend preparing for System Design rounds? Looking for approximate time so that I don't keep my expectation high wrt to time. If you could mention how did you prepare it will be helpful. 😇 Grooking, Alex Xu, DDIA. YT videos. TC:170k #tech #faang #leetocde #ap
- Roblox System design What to expect for the System design interview for Roblox? I have passed the Karat interview. The recruiter mentioned this would be like a screening round before final interviews with the team. TC: 220K YOE: 4 #Roblox #interview
- System Design I know absolutely nothing about System Design , but have a system design interview coming up in 3 weeks for LinkedIn as part of my virtual on-site day. Also heard Bloomberg may ask a few questions about system design as well. Not sure if Google asks or not, but I want to be prepared. Does any one h
- System design I wanna learn more about system design. Can anyone recommend me some resources? So far these are some resources I know but not sure if they’re super useful: DDIA, educative system design, Alex Xu’s system design book.
- System design I was reading Grokking for Twitter system design and for sharding it mentioned, one way to shard is by creation time for tweets. The advantage to that approach being we can fetch tweets quickly since they will all be in one server. I am wondering how do they actually shard it by creation time? Is it
- System Design In system design interviews you write all functional and nonfunctional requirements and review with interviewer? Also draw the architectural diagram to explain? By Sharing the screen? #engineering #software #swe#faang
- Google System Design Can people please share some system design questions they were recently asked during Google interviews?#engineering #software #google #systemdesign Tc: 250K 4 yoe
- Are System Design Interviews Broken? Leetcode gets a lot hate but it seems System Design interviews are just as ridiculous sometimes. 1) you need to magically come up with the features and then negotiate with an interviewer what their interpretation of scale is. Gathering requirements is a real skill, but schmoozing your way to get an
- Alex Xu's System Design Interview? the book is super costly. btw who is alex xu? from linkedin, not close to architect nor principle eng.
- System design Experienced folks, what kind of resources would you suggest for system design for someone learning from scratch? I flunk almost all of my interviews only because of system design :( YOE: 2 TC: 🥜/🍌