When preparing for FAANG and big tech interviews as a software engineer, you’ll see a lot of preparatory material online about the coding interview. More online information is needed about the system design interview compared to the coding interview. This fact makes it especially difficult to understand what you need to know to excel during…
Load balancers aren’t a difficult concept to understand, yet they are very important to understand when it comes to the system design interview. If you don’t understand the basics of when and why to use load balancers, you’re going to be unable to develop large and scalable distributed systems. Load balancers act as reverse proxies…
I remember when I was studying for my system design interviews almost half a year ago. I was studying system design for the first time with minimal prior real-world system design experience. When it came to the topic of consistent hashing, I was able to understand it on a basic level, however, I wasn’t able…
The tech recession was beginning, so it was a difficult time to find a new job. I remember the stress and anxiety I experienced when studying both system design and the system design interview a couple of months ago (and yes, there’s a difference between the two). I haven’t done much substantial system design work…
I think it’s fair to say that a lot of the software engineer interview preparation material on the internet relates to LeetCode-style interview problems. This makes sense because a lot of the material on the internet in general is tailored toward beginners. In this case, beginners are more entry-level and (also to a certain degree)…
About a month ago, I applied and went through a couple of interview loops for mid-level software engineer roles at big-tech companies. This was my first exposure to system design interviews because I never had to do them as an intern or entry-level software engineer. The extent of my system design knowledge was in designing…
