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Jason Piao
Jason Piao

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System design interviews done right!

HiπŸ‘‹

My names Jason and at my previous company, I was on both sides of the classic systems design interview, and found the remote experience to be far from ideal. I was frustrated that existing tools didn't support real time cursor and shape movements, easy access to common symbols used in software engineering, and a dashboard for managing the interview experience.

I realized most companies use tools like google draw which provides a far from ideal experience for both interviewer and interviewee. Considering these interviews are used to hire high level engineers, I thought a dedicated platform needed to be built!

Me and a friend built DesignPad and it is now ready for beta! Here is our demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2EijbEVWmI&ab_channel=designpad !

What can it do?
βœ… Realtime collaboration (shapes, text, arrows, cursor locations)
βœ… Suite of shapes commonly used in engineering design
βœ… Fully functioning dashboard equipped with archived rooms, screenshots, and scheduling

We would love any feedback and if youre interviewing anyone soon, please give this a try! We think you will see a huge difference when using DesignPad vs other tools!

How can I get started?

  1. Signup at https://designpad.io/signup
  2. Check out our user guide at https://www.notion.so/DesignPad-User-Guide-43bad70f4bbd4cfea37e802a8318e471

Let us know what else would be useful for you πŸ™‚
Happy Interviewing!

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