Engineering Manager System Design Interview Questions

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Design a notification system.
a year ago1 answer
Design APIs for Facebook live commenting.
6 months ago4 answers
How would you handle Gmail accounts when two users create the same username from different countries?
5 years ago1 answer
Design a monitoring system for 1000 web servers.
2 years ago1 answer
Design Zillow. Has video answer
5 years ago3 answers
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How would you design the new storage system, especially the partitioning, as volume grows from millions of records to hundreds of millions or billions?
4 months ago
Design a system like YouTube.
7 months ago3 answers
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.
4 months ago
Design a fraud-detection system for Stripe.
8 months ago
Design an auction feature on Instagram
a year ago
Detect the language of a text input.
2 years ago
Design a sentence autocomplete suggestion system. Example: Input - 'I hope you feel', Output - 'better soon'. This system is used in applications like Gmail, Google Docs, and Hangouts.
4 years ago1 answer
Describe what happens when you visit https://google.com in your web browser.
3 years ago3 answers
As a product manager for Meta, design a product for volunteers.
6 months ago2 answers
How would you design a LinkedIn-like system that instantly shows whether a profile is a first-, second-, or third-level connection for a user at very large scale?
4 months ago
How would you design chess.com?
9 months ago1 answer
Design a check-in service that automatically checks users out when they leave a defined proximity range.
a year ago1 answer
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?
4 months ago
Design Coinbase's backend system.
a year ago
Design a new version of Google Docs.
5 years ago

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Engineering Manager System Design Interview Questions

Design a notification system.

Design APIs for Facebook live commenting.

How would you handle Gmail accounts when two users create the same username from different countries?

Design a monitoring system for 1000 web servers.

Design Zillow. Has video answer

How would you design the new storage system, especially the partitioning, as volume grows from millions of records to hundreds of millions or billions?

Design a system like YouTube.

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.

Design a fraud-detection system for Stripe.

Design an auction feature on Instagram

Detect the language of a text input.

Design a sentence autocomplete suggestion system. Example: Input - 'I hope you feel', Output - 'better soon'. This system is used in applications like Gmail, Google Docs, and Hangouts.

Describe what happens when you visit https://google.com in your web browser.

As a product manager for Meta, design a product for volunteers.

How would you design a LinkedIn-like system that instantly shows whether a profile is a first-, second-, or third-level connection for a user at very large scale?

How would you design chess.com?

Design a check-in service that automatically checks users out when they leave a defined proximity range.

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?

Design Coinbase's backend system.

Design a new version of Google Docs.

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