Skip to main content

System Design Interview Questions

Review this list of 411 System Design interview questions and answers verified by hiring managers and candidates.

+ Share interview

Asked at Google • 5 years ago
Design a cell phone for families living in cities.
System Design
Product Design
Add answer
System Design
Product Design
Asked at Frame.io • 5 years ago
How would you describe the design philosophies of Apple and Google? Which do you prefer?
System Design
Product Design
Add answer
System Design
Product Design
Asked at Apple • 2 months ago
Design a storage system for large block data, where keys can be up to about 1K and values can be up to about 300K.
Engineering Manager
System Design
Add answer
Engineering Manager
System Design
Asked at Apple • 2 months ago
How would you design the new storage system, especially the partitioning, as volume grows from millions of records to hundreds of millions or billions?
Engineering Manager
System Design
+1 more
Add answer
Engineering Manager
System Design
+1 more
Asked at Apple • 2 months ago
We are replacing an old metrics storage system with scaling issues. How would you migrate the data without interrupting live traffic or losing any internal data?
Engineering Manager
System Design
+1 more
Add answer
Engineering Manager
System Design
+1 more

🧠 Want an expert answer to a question? Saving questions lets us know what content to make next.

Asked at Google • 2 months ago
Design a system that collects logs and metrics from many source systems, processes them by dimensions like location, customer, and data type, and serves them to downstream consumers.
Engineering Manager
System Design
Add answer
Engineering Manager
System Design
Asked at Lyft • 2 months ago
Implement a time-based key value store with set and get, plus extra methods.
Software Engineer
System Design
+1 more
Add answer
Software Engineer
System Design
+1 more
Asked at Google • 2 months ago
If the data set is too large to fit in memory on one machine and you have multiple workers, how would you sort it?
Software Engineer
System Design
+1 more
Add answer
Software Engineer
System Design
+1 more
Asked at Meta • 5 months ago
Design a recommendation system for locations in a feed for a user who arrives in a new city and wants recommendations for places to visit.
Machine Learning Engineer
System Design
+1 more
Add answer
Machine Learning Engineer
System Design
+1 more
Asked at Meta • 5 months ago
Design the ad management logic for surfacing ads based on user preferences or profiles.
Engineering Manager
System Design
+1 more
Add answer
Engineering Manager
System Design
+1 more
Asked at Netflix • a month ago
Build a TTL cache.
Software Engineer
System Design
+1 more
Add answer
Software Engineer
System Design
+1 more

Showing 401-411 of 411

Popular roles

Software Engineer Product Manager Engineering Manager Machine Learning Engineer Technical Program Manager

Interviewed recently?

Help improve our question database (and earn karma) by telling us about your experience

+ Share interview experience

Trending companies

Meta

Google

Amazon

Microsoft

DoorDash

Apple

Exponent

Get updates in your inbox with the latest tips, job listings, and more.

Follow Us

Products

Pricing Courses Coaching Interview Guides Interview Experiences Interview Questions Peer Mock Interviews Job Referrals All Companies

Courses

Product Management Software Engineering System Design Data Analytics Product Analytics Data Engineer Security Engineering Security Analyst Engineering Management Technical Program Management UX / Product Design Data Science SQL Interviews Solutions Architect BizOps & Strategy Machine Learning Engineering Behavioral Generative AI

Interview Questions

PM Interview Questions TPM Interview Questions EM Interview Questions Software Engineering Interview Questions Data Analytics Interview Questions Data Engineering Interview Questions Solutions Architect Interview Questions BizOps Interview Questions Designer Interview Questions Machine Learning Interview Questions Data Science Interview Questions

Interview Experiences

All Experiences Verified Experiences Share Interview Experience PM Experiences EM Experiences SWE Experiences OpenAI Experiences Anthropic Experiences Google Experiences Meta Experiences