Background : I am a generalist kind of sw eng work doing mainly some javascript and some backend coding to implement business logics. No micro service working experience but have overall idea , Specifically have worked for very little time for some projects. I don't find them extraordinarily challenging but this is something you can be better if you are working in them everyday , so i effectively i don't have any practical experience of working on micro services. After facebook phone screening last week pretty confident to get onsite call. Need to schedule google and AirBnb and few other companies final round interviews in next month. As i don't work on distributed systems have been going though youtube videos from multiple channels and other known websites like grokking etc since last few months, so i have overall idea how the system works but don't have in depth knowledge of them so i may bomb the interviews if poked more for internal details. All these positions are for senior level(L5/E5) interviews. So any guidance guys how to proceed here and what are the best resources to prepare? I know coding part is hit and miss depending on luck but want to be extra prepared for design rounds. Anyone cracked these interviews recently at senior level without having written any micro services ? And how deep we need to go in design interviews ? Any best resources ? total exp : ~10years, L63, TC: peanuts(even lesser than fresh grads) #engineering #software #swe #design
Designing data intensive applications if you’ve got a while, patience, and want to be kinda thorough. Grokking system design was more than enough for me to crack FB E5, but it does lack much depth and can leave you wanting (esp if an interviewer wants to dive deep in an area) This GitHub link isnt terribly useful on its own IMO but the curated list of eng blogs at the end is a pretty solid resource on its own: https://github.com/shashank88/system_design
Is that true? For e5 grokking was sufficient? That gives me some confidence.. Thanks
I might have just been unlucky but I seriously bombed my FB system design despite having used all the resources in this thread. If I could do it again I would pay for one of the mock interview services to get a sense of if I was ready or not.
Try https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK8IOvtbwVsuYW8KovGg9o6dlhspym8O_
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3 YOE mostly as a frontend engineer, but recently passed system design interviews at various FAANG companies. I knew very little about system design especially distributed systems, so I paid for grokking the system design interview. Found it helpful but very surface level. Then used the YouTube channels Gaurav Sen and Tech Dummies - Narenda L to dive deeper. Probably spent 50 hours in total watching YouTube videos over the past 2 months to learn all the topics.
Ya already went through their most of the videos, thanks
You should be good then tbh