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Ace product interviews from strategy cases to technical skills.
Forward Deployed
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Prep for FDE loops at Anthropic, OpenAI, Palantir, and more.
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Review key leadership and people management skills.
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Learn essential strategies for coding problems and more.
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Define architectures, interfaces, and databases in a time crunch.
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Execute statistical techniques and experimentation effectively.
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Review building, evaluating, and deploying AI/ML models.
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Design complex data models and ETL pipelines.
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Solutions Architect Interview Prep
Solutions Architect Interview Introduction
Welcome to the Solutions Architect Interview Course
What Is a Solutions Architect?
A Sr. SA at AWS Shares His Experience
The Solutions Architect Interview Loop
How to Get a Solutions Architect Job (with AWS Solutions Architect)
Day in the Life of an Amazon Solutions Architect
How to Think Like a Solutions Architect
Being a Meta Solutions Engineer
Customer Interaction Interviews
Intro to Customer Interaction Interviews
Discovery Interviews
Demo Interviews
Handling Customer Objections
Customer Interaction Interview Tips
How to Do Discovery
Mock Solutions Architect Discovery Call
Demo Snowflake for a Banking Client
Demo MongoDB for an Ecommerce Client
Demo LabelBox for an Autonomous Delivery Client
Defend a Solution to a Customer with Objections
Handling Price Objections
Technical Questions for Solutions Architects
Intro to Technical SA Questions
Cloud Fundamentals for Solutions Architects
Evaluating REST APIs for a Snack Distributor
Determine the Database Schema for a Pizza Ordering System
Design an Architecture for a Self-Serve Insurance Product
What Happens When You Type a URL into a Browser?
Choose a Platform For Building an App Leveraging APIs
System Design Interviews
Overview
Introduction to the System Design Interview
How to Answer System Design Interview Questions
The Must-Know System Design Patterns
Rubric for System Design Interviews
How to Use a Whiteboard in System Design Interviews
Read-Heavy Systems
Read-Heavy Systems
Design a URL Shortener
Design Typeahead for Search Box
Design Instagram
Design Twitter
Design the Reddit Homepage
Event-Driven Systems
Event-Driven and Pub/Sub Architectures
Design a Distributed Message Queue
Design Webhook Delivery
Design Uber Eats
Async Jobs and Workers
Async Jobs and Workers
Design a Web Crawler
Design a Job Scheduler
Design App that Downloads User Data
Distributed Data Storage & Partitioning
Partitioned and Distributed Storage
Design a Key Value Store
Design a Rate Limiter
Design a Distributed LRU Cache
Design Dropbox
Design Distributed Storage (S3)
Transactional Systems
Transactional Systems
Design Ticketmaster
Design a Hotel Booking System
Design a Parking Garage
Batch Processing and Data Pipelines
Batch Processing and Data Pipelines
Design a Metrics and Logging Service
Design an Application Performance Monitoring System
Design a Document Processing Pipeline
Design Zillow
Design a Weather App
Real-Time and Collaborative Systems
Real-Time and Collaborative Systems
Design Facebook Messenger
Design WhatsApp
Design Chess.com
Design Slack
Design Google Docs
Media Streaming and Content Delivery
Media Streaming and Content Delivery
Design YouTube
Design Netflix
Design TikTok
Design Twitch
Agentic AI Systems
Agentic AI Architectures
Design an AI-Powered Customer Support System
Design ChatGPT
File Uploader for AI Chat App
Design an LLM Query Batching System
Design Claude Code
Design a Real-Time Voice AI
Appendix: System Design Concepts
System Design Glossary
Top Engineering Blogs
Caching
CDNs
Web Protocol Questions
APIs
Load Balancing
CAP Theorem
SQL vs. NoSQL
Database Sharding
Replication
Consistent Hashing
Asynchronous Processing
Encryption
Authentication and Authorization
Cloud Architecture
Availability
Reliability
Behavioral Interviews for Solutions Architects
Behavioral Questions for Solutions Architects
Building Your Solutions Architect Story Bank
Using the STAR Framework
Solving a Complex Problem For a Customer
Tell Me about a Challenge You Faced Working with Sales
Tell Me About a Time You Convinced Others to Support Your Idea
How Would You Handle a Client Looking To Switch From a Legacy System to Cloud?
Tell Me About a Time You Made a Mistake
Handling Failure
Building Credibility With Teammates
Describe Your Proudest Project
Interview Tips & Frameworks
Tips
How to Pause
Discussing Tradeoffs
How To Check In With Interviewers
Acing Phone Interviews
How To Get Unstuck
What To Do Before an Interview
Using the Whiteboard
Frameworks
Framework: Broad Then Deep
Framework: The Triangle Method
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Solutions Architect Interview Prep
Solutions Architect Interview Introduction
Welcome to the Solutions Architect Interview Course
What Is a Solutions Architect?
A Sr. SA at AWS Shares His Experience
The Solutions Architect Interview Loop
How to Get a Solutions Architect Job (with AWS Solutions Architect)
Day in the Life of an Amazon Solutions Architect
How to Think Like a Solutions Architect
Being a Meta Solutions Engineer
Customer Interaction Interviews
Intro to Customer Interaction Interviews
Discovery Interviews
Demo Interviews
Handling Customer Objections
Customer Interaction Interview Tips
How to Do Discovery
Mock Solutions Architect Discovery Call
Demo Snowflake for a Banking Client
Demo MongoDB for an Ecommerce Client
Demo LabelBox for an Autonomous Delivery Client
Defend a Solution to a Customer with Objections
Handling Price Objections
Technical Questions for Solutions Architects
Intro to Technical SA Questions
Cloud Fundamentals for Solutions Architects
Evaluating REST APIs for a Snack Distributor
Determine the Database Schema for a Pizza Ordering System
Design an Architecture for a Self-Serve Insurance Product
What Happens When You Type a URL into a Browser?
Choose a Platform For Building an App Leveraging APIs
System Design Interviews
Overview
Introduction to the System Design Interview
How to Answer System Design Interview Questions
The Must-Know System Design Patterns
Rubric for System Design Interviews
How to Use a Whiteboard in System Design Interviews
Read-Heavy Systems
Read-Heavy Systems
Design a URL Shortener
Design Typeahead for Search Box
Design Instagram
Design Twitter
Design the Reddit Homepage
Event-Driven Systems
Event-Driven and Pub/Sub Architectures
Design a Distributed Message Queue
Design Webhook Delivery
Design Uber Eats
Async Jobs and Workers
Async Jobs and Workers
Design a Web Crawler
Design a Job Scheduler
Design App that Downloads User Data
Distributed Data Storage & Partitioning
Partitioned and Distributed Storage
Design a Key Value Store
Design a Rate Limiter
Design a Distributed LRU Cache
Design Dropbox
Design Distributed Storage (S3)
Transactional Systems
Transactional Systems
Design Ticketmaster
Design a Hotel Booking System
Design a Parking Garage
Batch Processing and Data Pipelines
Batch Processing and Data Pipelines
Design a Metrics and Logging Service
Design an Application Performance Monitoring System
Design a Document Processing Pipeline
Design Zillow
Design a Weather App
Real-Time and Collaborative Systems
Real-Time and Collaborative Systems
Design Facebook Messenger
Design WhatsApp
Design Chess.com
Design Slack
Design Google Docs
Media Streaming and Content Delivery
Media Streaming and Content Delivery
Design YouTube
Design Netflix
Design TikTok
Design Twitch
Agentic AI Systems
Agentic AI Architectures
Design an AI-Powered Customer Support System
Design ChatGPT
File Uploader for AI Chat App
Design an LLM Query Batching System
Design Claude Code
Design a Real-Time Voice AI
Appendix: System Design Concepts
System Design Glossary
Top Engineering Blogs
Caching
CDNs
Web Protocol Questions
APIs
Load Balancing
CAP Theorem
SQL vs. NoSQL
Database Sharding
Replication
Consistent Hashing
Asynchronous Processing
Encryption
Authentication and Authorization
Cloud Architecture
Availability
Reliability
Behavioral Interviews for Solutions Architects
Behavioral Questions for Solutions Architects
Building Your Solutions Architect Story Bank
Using the STAR Framework
Solving a Complex Problem For a Customer
Tell Me about a Challenge You Faced Working with Sales
Tell Me About a Time You Convinced Others to Support Your Idea
How Would You Handle a Client Looking To Switch From a Legacy System to Cloud?
Tell Me About a Time You Made a Mistake
Handling Failure
Building Credibility With Teammates
Describe Your Proudest Project
Interview Tips & Frameworks
Tips
How to Pause
Discussing Tradeoffs
How To Check In With Interviewers
Acing Phone Interviews
How To Get Unstuck
What To Do Before an Interview
Using the Whiteboard
Frameworks
Framework: Broad Then Deep
Framework: The Triangle Method
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