Datadog System Design Interview
Hi everyone, I applied for a security engineering role at Datadog and will probably be interviewing in 2 weeks. I need to clear the first hurdle, which is a coding interview (for security engineers, so it is more about applicable problem solving rather than doing leetcode style elegant and efficient algorithms) and a system design interview. If I don't clear these two interviews, I won't be let through to the final rounds where they actually quiz me on security knowledge. I have leetcoded in the past and programmed extensively, so that is good foundation for me to prepare for the coding interview. But I have never done any system design interview preparation... and was not expecting such one during this job hunt. I have two weeks and this monday is a federal holiday off from work. How can one prepare ruthlessly and quickly for the system design interview in order to nail it? Thanks in advance #datadog #systemdesign #tech #interviews
Almost every system design question I’ve received is some variation of design an order book, Slack, Dropbox, or Twitter. One exception was a crypto company had some blockchain related problem. I actually did a security engineer interview at Datadog once years ago. It was verifying the integrity of customer configs. It’s an asymmetric cryptography question basically.
Gotcha and thanks. Can you ping me please in DM? Used up all of mine for the month
It’s the usual design Netflix, Dropbox, web crawler type questions
System design interview book by Alex Xu is a good start
Let's say I got it immediately, how much time/chapters does it take to crash course that thing and be able to perform?