E6/Staff system design : best practices.

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e6-intern

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Apr 21 17 Comments

Hey awesome people.

I have upcoming staff level interviews at few places. Meta, RH, Google etc.

What are some of the common mistakes? Some common things to cover.

What are the things which stands out in a candidate like waoooo factory.

There is lot of resources on internet but I wanted to know from some of the experienced interviewers here.

Those who cleared the staff level please add your strength.

TC : 250k base, paper equity.

#meta #google #robinhood #linkedin

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  • Netflix
    whatevvvs

    Go to company page Netflix

    BIO
    whatevvvs
    Donโ€™t use RDBMS even when theyโ€™re the best tool for the job ๐Ÿคฃ
    Apr 21 8
    • Amazon
      amarok

      Go to company page Amazon

      amarok
      Is RDBMS not scalable? The joke I will be laughing at all day. Ah, those kiddos having 1-2 years' experience throwing hype to all problems. Be a person who shows tradeoffs during the interview and you will crack it. Be yourself in the interview.
      Apr 24
    • Rest other things aside, do you hire engineers who proves RDBMS is right for the system design interview question after walking through(as per your expectations) pros and cons of using relational vs non-relational data stores.

      Note:
      And I m not asking for Junior or senior engineer interviews but staff and principal engineer level interviews
      Apr 24
  • Amazon
    LpsSlave2

    Go to company page Amazon

    LpsSlave2
    F
    Apr 21 3
  • Why we need this solution? customer, their type, use cases,
    timeline, iterative, tech MVP and product MVP, why/not tech debt?
    its is a service or a product, in-house usage
    ======
    stateless services(REST API)
    event-driven(kafka, SQS etc)
    persist state to NoSQL like DyanamoDB(consistent hashing)
    performance with cache
    resilient - heartbeat/retry with idempotency
    operations - monitoring/metrics/observability/alerts/self healing
    compliance - handle sensitive data
    Apr 24 1
    • New
      e6-intern

      New

      e6-intern
      OP
      Thank you ๐Ÿ™ boss
      Apr 26
  • Amazon
    scPd70

    Go to company page Amazon

    scPd70
    For me, what worked best was telling brief stories of how I used specific technologies and patterns in my current job/projects at Amazon.

    One of the interviewers commented that that I must have a lot of experience in design (which is true ;)).

    Got Google Staff offer from Amazon L6.
    May 6 1