Architecture presentation to interview panel
Mar 20, 2021
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Experienced folks - can you please share your thoughts and suggestions? I need to give a presentation on complex architecture. I worked on - the interviewer, includes highly technical people, the hiring manager, and the VP of the Org. What should I consider when giving and preparing a presentation?
YOE - 15+
Company - Snowflake
Position - Engineering Manager
#faang #databricks #snowflake
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1. Sell the problem in as simple terms as possible. Why was it important ?
2. What tradeoffs did you consider and make (and why?). Talk about SLOs.
3. High level architecture.
4. Data flow.
5. Monitoring.
6. Your experience - what did you find out after the fact and how did you account for it (In a large complex system, it's almost impossible to nail all the requirements before you start building at least in my experience).
7. Your takeaways.
8. What would you do differently next time.