How would you answer this question. The number of users laptops could be easily estimated. How about the servers ? Would you calculate for each product ? Search, Youtube, Gmail - can't possibly do that in the interview. How would you calculate number of users per server and number of simultaneous ...Read more
It seems like there is not much information or resources to prepare for the product architecture interview compared to the typical system design interview. Can anyone recommend a youtube channel or website I can use to prepare for this interview even if i have to pay. Product architecture questions...Read more
Frame drops, audio drops, poor search and navigation, server error, app crashes, needs 25Mbps to run HD. Other popular services (netflix, hulu, youtube tv, hbo, prime video, etc.) are far ahead in streaming quality and performance.
Only those who are committed or are willing to commit to no unproductive youtube and no porn/masturbation are allowed to join. DM me if you want the invite (or let me know if you are out of DMs and I'll DM you the invite). You would have to post daily updates to remain in the server, if you fail to...Read more
With recent turmoil in my life, I've turned to spirituality for guidance. I've found some books and podcasts that help. There's an old book called 'the upanishads' I found interesting. Its an English translation with commentary on each verse. I'm also looking for podcasts or YouTube channels you t...Read more
15%, 20%, 25% tipping is getting out of hand. I see people defend it saying servers/waiters are paid less than min wage. But that is not true. Here is what I have gathered from various sources - 1. Restaurants are legally required to pay servers the difference between min wage and (direct pay + tip...Read more
I was looking at a YouTube video and saw they revamped the progress bar. I couldn’t understand how they would have designed this at scale from the server and client side. Functional Requirements would be the following I imagine: Clients should be able to see what 5-second chunks are replayed the mo...Read more
As a mobile dev, would I be expected to design a system beyond an App client in an interview for L5+, E5+, etc? More broadly, are you expected to be familiar with the broader stack of a large product like Twitter or YouTube when interviewing at large or FAANG level companies? I know server side stuf...Read more
Hi, I have an onsite coming up, Recruiter mentioned question like, Design a data center network to support 10k servers, describe topology, different protocols usage, merchant hardware, Monitoring system, Remidiation system usage etc What are the good resources to prepare for such questions... Ex...Read more
Can someone please explain to me what is difference between system design and product design in the design interview session for GEN SWE? I need to choose one of them. I am more ML engineer with some backend engineer experience. But this interview is for SWE. Which one is more aligned with my backgr...Read more
Which Microsoft PM/producer had the dumb idea of introducing a new reporting system that can result in global player bans for even privately-hosted servers? Player-based reporting sounds like one of those false Youtube-copyright strike situations just waiting to happen. Not to mention how would you...Read more
Billions of phones have the gmail app installed today. In the last 10 years compute power available on the phone has exponentially grown. Why doesn’t GMail / any other big consumer app business move certain computations to the phone especially computation that they do on the server side. This isn’...Read more
I have little sde background, so apologies for noob question. I was recently asked in a System Design interview to design a system that will get hundreds of thousands of hits within a short time span (think multiplayer online short video game). The main challenge is to handle concurrency issue. I ga...Read more
FYI: it's a serious ask of a referral. Need to proceed asap. I'll wear the Noogler hat on every meeting until I get a promotion. I use Google stock Android on a Pixel device and allow Google to collect as much data as possible. I've spent countless hours on LC and it's the #1 goal of my life. I hav...Read more
Hello, I am just starting to prepare for SDE interviews, primarily targeting FANG, Microsoft , Uber, Lyft, Dropbox etc. Regarding system design interview what is the general expectations in terms of depth. Like if we take the question “Design YouTube” , the scope of the question is huge. So how de...Read more
I have been working on a video streaming service idea for a while now. [My home country doesn't have any dedicated service and there is a decent target market] I spent sometime learning react to create a working prototype and now ramping up on understanding how the backend architecture works. I a...Read more
Hi there, Already tried interviewing.io, pramp and some servers at discord to find mock interviews. Its been of some help and some of them have been misses. Here to look for folks who are experienced in doing system design interviews and may do me a big favor by giving their hour to do a mock inter...Read more
Are any of you Google employees paying attention to what is going on in YouTube and on Instagram? You have a woman with 500k+ followers threatning to shoot reporters and process servers.. she made TMZ yesterday... I'm trying to figure out how you guys have not stepped in and shut her accounts and ch...Read more
Interviewed with facebook a while ago and had a pretty weird experience. Was asked to design a type ahead suggestion for google search. It was a product design interview , not system design. Came up with a trie, computed via map reduce periodically over 1 hour(configurable), frontend implementatio...Read more
Happy Monday! Hello, I am an analytics engineer mostly working with semiconductor test data, financial data for BU, automating few manual task and creating pbi dashboards. I use Python and SQL mostly I report to a director and everyone else surrounding me are managers who are experts in electrica...Read more