8 years at Google. L5 growing into L6 but it seems at least a year away. Management is okay but their focus for career growth has been on another candidate. So started interviewing at Meta and finally got an offer today. Have decided to join them (blind created poll by default after adding current T...Read more
Anyone have any recommendations on books to read or YouTube series for learning system design/architecture from scratch?
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
What are some good resources for hardware system design / architecture interview preparation? Looking for any MOOC (Coursera, edx etc), YouTube videos, books, university courses etc for this. I'm prepping hardware roles and want to brush up on fundamentals as well as high level tradeoffs in archit...Read more
I am very interested to learn GPU hardware/perf architecture. Maybe switch my career to it. Any good rederence? Most YouTube videos are on the software/HPC programming side. What's a good start ? #engineer #hardware
Could be any sub part: db, architecture, scaling anything. Any expertise level as well: introductory to all the way advance. Enjoying a lot of good videos on YouTube from conferences, would love other recommendations. Thanks all.
Anyone have any recommendations on books to read or YouTube series for learning system design/architecture from scratch? I’m hoping to prepare for potential interview questions in the future, but also want the general knowledge. Tc: 200k
Hi all, I was reached out to by a recruiter for a few positions and I’m trying to determine what these roles are. 1. TPM vs PgM @ Google 2. Any differences in pay? 3. Are TPMs valued/respected more? 4. Career Growth difference between the two? Roles: PM, Youtube TPM, SWE Current Role: PM @ Micr...Read more
Hello, I'm preparing for an interview at Databricks, and I find myself a bit perplexed by the distinction between two interview types. As far as I understand, the architecture interview (ARCH) primarily delves into high-level system design questions, such as "how to design YouTube". It often involve...Read more
I have a 3.2 gpa, though it’s from a top school. It was my own fault (diagnosed with depression, but I own that I wasn’t as hard a worker as I should have been). Been grinding + studying with Anki in my free time the past 1-1.5 years: leetcode hards (top 2% in competitions), OSTEP, systems, archite...Read more
Hi TC lovers. I am using docker/docker-compose for local development but have not used kubernetes. I watched a few youtube videos but i am not satisfied with the explanations. Any suggestions? #kubernetes #k8s At least can someone give an example of a what services do you run in a single pod? Is it...Read more
Any insights for Atlassian Senior Data Engineer interview and what type of questions to expect? I have an onsite coming up in few weeks , so trying to gather as much information I can . I am in a sinking ship with Amazon so just want to Jump before drowning with it . Recruiter shared I will have b...Read more
I have 5 YOE and I am a swe. I still do not grasp the OOPS concept . Why and when to use interfaces and abstract classes and architectural patterns and other general oops concepts ? When I follow a tutorial or YouTube video with some simple examples , it seems fine but I struggle to apply it in my ...Read more
Hey everyone! Question for anyone who’s really good at system design: I have a final round interview with Square this week for a senior frontend role. I’ll be asked to design a Hotel Booking system. Do you guys have any suggestions on things to point out or areas of the design that may be more imp...Read more
I’m about 2.5 YOE in the field so I’m applying for E4. I was able to pass the first round. I have the full loop coming up. I think I’ll be good on the coding, just need to work on efficiency, but I’m interested to hear from people that have recently passed that can give me some tips on the system 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
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 Folks I am looking for good resources on Microservices that I can learn from. I am interested in starting the services from scratch and take it up to the level of production. On Google, I don't see any good resources that I can refer to learn and implement. How you guys get started with it and h...Read more
I have a senior-level interview coming up in 2 weeks with a video hosting company (have only been a SWE-1 with 3 YOE) and need to be fluent in: 1) Data Modeling 2) System Architecture I'm going to go through Xu's "System Design Interview [Volume 1]" and I'm going through some YouTube videos, but I'...Read more
Hey my fellow senior engineers, What are the best resources for understanding how to design stream processing and analytic systems? Big data & data warehouse systems. This design works for designing systems like Amazon's product recommendation service or YouTube's video recommendation service. Yo...Read more