Found out I passed the phone screen (was pretty easy actually, even though I only had ~30 min for the 2 coding questions). But now I have the onsite with the system design and behavioral as my two major study areas from this point. Anyone know what the system design questions are like for interviewing for an iOS role? Cuz if it’s like backend stuff like sharding and DBs, I’m screwed. Is it more oriented at feature design or object design, or something else altogether. TC: 320K YOE: 5 #ios #systemdesign #meta
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I got an offer for E5, and my system design was mostly iOS focused. You should definitely know some backend stuff tho, like sockets, http, sse and pagination methods and their DB performances. Honestly it was a pretty generic mobile system design. Also does meta really give out E6 interviews for 5 YOE? You’re sure it’s not E5?
What was the question (at least an hint...)? How did you approach the problem? Where did you start from? Can you walk us through your thought process? Thanks 🙏
It was a relatively general app design, it wasn’t super common (so no design a social media feed or design a messaging app) so I hadn’t seen it before but the concepts were similar. Alex lementuev has a bunch of good mock mobile system design interviews and it was very similar to those. Start with clarifying requirements -> high level design -> low level. The interview really grilled me on the low level implementation so definitely be ready for that and don’t bring up concepts you can’t talk in detail about
It can be a wild card. If you brush up on the jordan has no life series on YouTube, you should be good. I recommend writing down key notes from each episode as that will help with memory
Definitely do not follow this, OP asked for iOS. As far as I’m aware Jordan has no life doesn’t do iOS and mobile system design is very different than backend design
I was saying this under the assumption OP already is prepped for mobile system design and wants to cover his bases. In my experience, and many others, meta system design interviews can be totally random
How was your interview
Scheduled for end of next week, but much more prepared now. I’ll update after.
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