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System Design Interviews - A step by step guide

Most engineers find system design interviews harder than coding interviews, and the reason is not usually knowledge. It is that the question has no fixed format. You are given one sentence, a blank page, and about forty five minutes, and nobody tells you what a complete answer looks like.

A process fixes that. Not because there is one right design, but because having a fixed order to work in means you always know what to do next, and at the end you can tell whether you covered everything.

These are the seven steps. Every case study in this course follows them, and so should you.

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J M

J M

· a month ago

When the interview is online, I find it easier to use text format to outline the data flow and architecture. I think it's way too time consuming to draw all the boxes and arrows.

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designgurus.cedar998

· 7 months ago

Step 7 seems to conflate performance (bottlenecks) with reliability (consequences of failure). I find it strange that all of the "bottlenecks" questions relate to reliability, not throughput or other performance concerns.

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Yung Chau

· 3 years ago

So I assume I should attempt the problem first myself and see what I missed reading through.

What do I do after that?

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Arturo Bravo

Arturo Bravo

· 3 years ago

hi

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Panos

· 3 years ago

What‘s the benefit of having a file storage system instead of using database blob storage?

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