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Anatomy of a System Design Interview

Fahim ul Haq on May 16, 2017

Note: This Post was originally published on Hackernoon. Over the last 2 years, I’ve taken 100s of System Design Interviews and helped engineers pr...
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Sishaar Rao

Insightful and awesome article! I would argue that this kind of thought process -- Requirements, Usage, Data Structures, Details -- where you proceed from large scale to fine details is the process you should use in most interview questions regarding qualifications/past employment on top of the systems design interviews. In my past experience, I've found that people who explain their work/projects in this manner are the most memorable.

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Eddie Naff

What types of jobs would I be interviewing for? What titles specifically? I understand everything you went over but I'll never be able to express this as... what 2 minutes of a 45 minute interview. I'd like to know which jobs would / will expect me to answer these questions.

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Alexandra Wolfe

This is a really interesting article - thanks for writing!