System design questions for self driving car company

Apple / Eng
bKzf48

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bKzf48
Apr 23, 2018 7 Comments

I am not from the traditional CS background and am trying to learn Software Engineering as I work.
I am Leetcoding everyday to get better at algo and data structures, but I have very little idea how I can study for system design.
I am especially interested in moving my job to a self driving car engineer.

Can someone give me examples of system design questions they got during an interview for self driving car engineer role?
(I.e. waymo, blah blah blah)

Thanks!

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  • Google / Product
    callofwild

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    callofwild
    1. Design a sensor for a self driving car.
    2. Design a mobile OS for a car
    3. Generic: how would you build a program to mimic the game battleship
    4. Generic: design an image search engine

    Key is to ask clarifying questions, start general, build framework and get ready to go deep in some areas.
    Apr 23, 2018 1
    • Apple / Eng
      bKzf48

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      bKzf48
      OP
      When I look through the web for sample design interview questions and a lot of them heavily talk about database, which I do not have tons of experience in. For example, designing Twitter, YouTube, Netflix are some common things I see that I have hard time with because of the db part. It might be a dumb question, but my question is, are system design question usually geared towards the actual system (self driving cars in this case) the job works with or could it be just general software system?
      Apr 23, 2018
  • Oracle
    Plkwhabs

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    Plkwhabs
    I am curious about the overall interview process. What additional things should we focus on for a self driving car interview?
    Apr 23, 2018 0
  • Nvidia
    cosco

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    cosco
    Register and call event with timestamp in future
    Apr 24, 2018 1
  • Cisco
    gLTc33

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    gLTc33
    Following
    Apr 23, 2018 1
    • Apple / Eng
      bKzf48

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      bKzf48
      OP
      Seems like there is a lit of interest in this topic if you look the number views but not nearly as many inputs :(
      Apr 23, 2018