Preparing for the System Design Interviews

Course details

System design interviews are very common in big software firms. They are different from coding interviews or data structure and algorithm interviews but can be harder. They require a broad set of knowledge. Almost all the top software companies, be it google, amazon, uber have one or two rounds of system design interviews. After clearing the data structures and algorithm interviews if you do well in these system design interviews you can expect a very good offer from these firms.

This is a course to help students to prepare for system design interviews. It gives brief description on key topics and contains a case study.  It is an actively developed course with more case studies and system design questions added frequently.

Some sample questions :

1. How would you go about designing an e-commerce website at scale ?

2. How would you go about designing the e-commerce website using microservices, how will you handle transactions ?

3. Design a chat messenger application like any famous chat messenger you have used ?

4. Create an autocomplete feature like word suggestions on search engines ? Scale it to millions of users ?

5. How would you go about creating a feed postings in a social network ?