System Design Interviews for Big Tech Software Engineers
System design interviews when I worked at Microsoft, Google, etc. were reserved for more senior candidates. Sometimes junior candidates would be asked to design class hierarchies, but the most interesting problems were usually reserved for senior candidates. They could go as large as proposing a design for a global internet-scale web service.
This video describes the sorts of questions brought up in system design interviews, and runs through an example problem.
Table of Contents
00:00 Design interview intro
00:38 First a disclaimer...
01:00 What the design interview can and can't do
01:58 Junior vs Senior questions
02:25 Picking the problem
04:18 Design parameters and decisions
05:59 What a design interview can and can't do
07:33 Summing it up