How I Mastered System Design Interviews
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This is the complete guide you need if you're preparing for the Data Engineering System Design Interviews. In this video, I break down how Senior Data Engineers approach System Design Interviews at top tech companies like Uber, DoorDash, Amazon, Meta and others.
Chapters:
00:00 — Why Data Engineering System Design Interviews Are Hard
04:19 — The 6-Step Framework
13:22 — Step 1: Requirements Gathering (Functional + Non-Functional)
27:33 — Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations
38:38 — Step 2: Pipeline Design (Batch vs Streaming)
47:21 — Lambda Architecture Explained (Uber Example)
56:27 — Kappa Architecture Explained
1:01:12 — Step 3: Data Modeling
1:02:29 — Medallion Architecture Deep Dive (Bronze, Silver, Gold)
1:07:04 — Star Schema vs One Big Table (OBT)
1:11:43 — Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCD Type 1, 2)
1:14:46 — Partitioning, Bucketing & Liquid Clustering
1:16:40 — Step 4: Storage & File Formats
1:18:48 — Parquet (Column-Based) Explained
1:22:16 — Avro (Row-Based) Explained
1:23:59 — Why Delta Lake / Iceberg / Hudi Matter
1:27:33 — Relational vs Non-Relational Databases
1:29:02 — Step 5: Data Quality & Observability
1:30:00 — The 5 Data Quality Dimensions
1:33:18 — Data Contracts (Shift-Left Quality)
1:36:25 — Pipeline-Level Observability
1:37:37 — Step 6: Scalability, Backfills & DataOps
1:38:05 — Idempotency: The Golden Rule
1:39:34 — Backfill Strategies
1:42:22 — Schema Evolution (Flexible at Bronze, Strict at Silver/Gold)
1:45:38 — INTERVEW WALKTHROUGH: Real Uber/DoorDash Interview Question
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