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Asked at Meta • 4 years ago
Design a solution for the world of online learning.
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"Created a solution for remote online learning app on the lines of coursera and also made a option for live streaming classes . Uni admin creates uni account, courses, adds instructors; instructors can create content , give classes ; student searches, enrols, consumes content. Used micro services architecture with APIs for all functions, RDBMS, NoSQL , indexed with redis and elastic."
Sneha D. - "Created a solution for remote online learning app on the lines of coursera and also made a option for live streaming classes . Uni admin creates uni account, courses, adds instructors; instructors can create content , give classes ; student searches, enrols, consumes content. Used micro services architecture with APIs for all functions, RDBMS, NoSQL , indexed with redis and elastic."See full answer
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Asked at Amazon • 5 years ago
Design an app where customer listening history is collected after they have listened to a song for more than 30 seconds for analytics use.
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"I gave multiple answers including polling the service every 10 sec to see customer. Or we can have the client side call which will send this data after 10 sec to us. We will store in dynamo DB and then send through pipelines to redshift DB for analytics."
Deepti K. - "I gave multiple answers including polling the service every 10 sec to see customer. Or we can have the client side call which will send this data after 10 sec to us. We will store in dynamo DB and then send through pipelines to redshift DB for analytics."See full answer
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Asked at Meta • 4 years ago
Design the backend of a feature that allows users to download their data from their Facebook account.
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"I think we can analyse the data that's collected especially the users who are requesting it.if we find that there are set of users who regularly use this service then we may cache the data for those users to speed up processing and better the experience. The fresh data (which will be a delta on the cached data can only be calculated) and the stale data can be left out thereby updating the cache"
Nilanjan D. - "I think we can analyse the data that's collected especially the users who are requesting it.if we find that there are set of users who regularly use this service then we may cache the data for those users to speed up processing and better the experience. The fresh data (which will be a delta on the cached data can only be calculated) and the stale data can be left out thereby updating the cache"See full answer
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Asked at Amazon • 5 years ago
Design a chess board and a Netflix recommendation engine.
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Asked at Walmart Labs • 4 years ago
Explain how you would design Google Play Store, including your choice of database, its structure, and rationale.
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"I contradict the choice of DB for storing App Data in this case, I believe a NoSQL would have been a better choice. Could you please clarify why you chose RDBMS/SQL?"
Jeet B. - "I contradict the choice of DB for storing App Data in this case, I believe a NoSQL would have been a better choice. Could you please clarify why you chose RDBMS/SQL?"See full answer
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Asked at Microsoft • 5 years ago
Design a kitchen.
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"Understand who will use the kitchen is the first step"
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Asked at Meta • 4 years ago
How would you allow a client to view the performance of a video on their social media ads?
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Asked at Google • 4 years ago
Design a system for doctors to upload X-rays and get ML results for preliminary diagnosis.
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Asked at Apple • 5 months ago
If you needed to improve data quality on a product like Siri, how would you define the scope?
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Asked at Meta • a year ago
Design an election system for the University of Washington.
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Design a technical system that replaces faulty parts in a data center.
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Asked at Google, Mastercard • a month ago
Explain the architecture of a project/platform you're working on or have worked on.
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Asked at Booking.com • 4 years ago
Draw the system for which one of your programs was responsible. Discuss the different components, how they interact, and the technical decisions made.
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Technical Program Manager System Design Interview Questions

Design a solution for the world of online learning.

Design an app where customer listening history is collected after they have listened to a song for more than 30 seconds for analytics use.

Design the backend of a feature that allows users to download their data from their Facebook account.

Design a chess board and a Netflix recommendation engine.

Explain how you would design Google Play Store, including your choice of database, its structure, and rationale.

Design a kitchen.

How would you allow a client to view the performance of a video on their social media ads?

Design a system for doctors to upload X-rays and get ML results for preliminary diagnosis.

If you needed to improve data quality on a product like Siri, how would you define the scope?

Design an election system for the University of Washington.

Design a technical system that replaces faulty parts in a data center.

Explain the architecture of a project/platform you're working on or have worked on.

Draw the system for which one of your programs was responsible. Discuss the different components, how they interact, and the technical decisions made.

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