System Design Interview Questions

Anand K. - "I started off with defining the users of the system. From them i dervied the functional requirements and categories into MoSCoW. Then for the DB part, Userprofiles, App data to be stored in a RDBMS. The binary apps to be stored in a scalable, distributed DB such as S3. The app data from RDBS to have a link to S3 URLS. Then i touched upon Partition tolerance while scaling, Replication, Caching at multiple levels, Load balancers at multiple levels. This being my first System design interview i"See full answer

Karthik M. - "Assumptions & Clarifications Users have access to all Google Workspace applications like Google Drive, Gmail and the same photo editing tool - let us call this tool - Google Photo Editor (GPhoto). Users can share the images like Google Docs - giving people read-only, read-write / edit access Goals Google's vision is to organize the world's information and make it accessible. GPhoto's mission / goal is to organize the world’s photo and make it accessible to others to view, edit or"See full answer

Anonymous Impala - "Understand who will use the kitchen is the first step"See full answer

Ak - "First, I'd like to ask a few clarifying questions: Do you have any specific user segment in mind or i can choose? A: you can choose Should we think about mobile rather than website? A: you can choose, choose mobile because of growth in usage across the glob Do you have any specific objectives in mind or i can choose? A: you can choose Is this app stand alone or part of broader Facebook ecosystem ? Part of Facebook Facebook mission is to give people power to build community and bring"See full answer

Himant G. - "Gusto provides the platform for HR services, Employee management/Payroll etc Why 2-factor authentication? Due to increasing cyber attacks, it is more important that the user identity be verified because the password verification doesn't seem to be just enough Passwords are compromised at times to bots, so a most robust mechanism is required which can identify that the authorized users are logging and using services Customers have often reported lack of confidence in using the product"See full answer

Kumaresh K. - "Provide me SAP ATTP consultant interview questions and answers"See full answer

Hyder A. - "Control plane has few component, it's like the brain of the cluster, the data plane is the work horse, CP has etcd, api-server, DP has kublet and kube-proxy"See full answer

Priya K. - "Clarifying questions : Which Kindle device are we talking about ? Kindle paper white, Kindle Oasis? , Kindle paper white 6.9' , Kindle tabs ? - Kindle oasis Kindle Oasis , what are the metric we are trying to achieve ? users onboarding? more marketshare? onboard amazon existing customers Landscape : Competition : In ebook readers, the main competition comes from Kobo, iPads, tabs. Kindle oasis feature is especially and absolutely for reading purpose and buying books to read and th"See full answer

Allison C. - "If I were to design a smartwatch app for Uber, I'd sort my work into two buckets: modifications fro the mobile-native app and new features that would be considered for the Uber experience on a smartwatch. As for modifications - you'd really have to think through the customer journey of ordering an Uber from your watch. For the purposes of this question, the only use case to use Uber would be to order and complete a ride from one point to another, not to look at ride history or get help on a pr"See full answer

M A. - "Clarifying question - Fb Timeline is essentially my profile wall on FB where I can post content. My friends, friends of friends or other users of FB can come and view my profile and stay connected. Content that I post on my timeline, also gets cross posted on my friends feed. Is that understanding correct? Are there any new goals of change of product strategy that I need to be aware of? Motivation/Why - FB timeline is a mature product, but it still aligns very well with Meta mission of connec"See full answer

Julien C. - "👇 Your feedback is very much appreciated 👇 Clarifying Questions Bookshelf: how is this bookshelf going to be used? at home? in a library? Elderly People: do we have more precisions on this elderly population? are they sick?disabled? [Interviewer: this bookshelf will be for home purposes. You'll have to specify.] Here's what we gonna do: Users & Pain Points: let's try to better understand who we are designing this bookshelf for Solutions: we'll brainstorm a few solutions and"See full answer

Sahil A. - "Clarifying question: By high-tech, we mean internet enabled refrigerator which uses technology and assists us in our decision making or takes decisions for us Users: Working women Homemakers Bachelors and Spinsters living alone Other family members (Elderly, Kids etc) Prioritized users: Working women, Bachelors and Spinsters living alone Problems: Food left in the refrigerator gets rotten as it goes out of notice I am at the supermarket and I dont know the inven"See full answer