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System Design Interviews - A step by step guide

Generally, software engineers have difficulty with system design interviews (SDIs) for three primary reasons:

  • SDIs are unstructured, where candidates are asked to take on an open-ended design problem that doesn't have a standard solution.
  • Candidates lack experience in developing complex and large-scale systems.
  • Candidates did not spend enough time preparing for SDIs.

SDIs are similar to coding interviews in that candidates who don't prepare well tend to do poorly, particularly at high-profile companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft

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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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designgurus.cedar998

· 5 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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Panos

· 3 years ago

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

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Arturo Bravo

Arturo Bravo

· 3 years ago

hi