A Guide to System Design Interviews

Expert Tips for Acing System Design Interview Questions Without Stress

De: Carl Jones

Narrado por: Jeff Mulholland

Do not go for a system design interview without listening to this book....

Things are getting complicated nowadays, and the job space is not immune. Why waste your chance of getting a job as a system designer after you have managed to get an invite? This is the whole essence of this guide; to give you another chance to land that dream job as a system designer for a top tier firm.

This guide discusses the basic tips to axe your next interview, while giving you real life interview questions with solutions. System designer is not about cramming how to design YouTube or Facebook as one question might throw you out of the window if you try to cram to your interview venue. This is why this guide talks about how you can tackle various design questions and provide tips for you to design your own product yourself.

Other critical information you will get in this guide include:

How to get system design interview questions right
Some typical system design examples
Dos and don't during system design interviews
Question from how to design a chat system like Whatsapp
Questions on high-level design
Questions on data models
Questions on design deep dive
Questions on service discovery
Questions on message flows
Questions on small group chat flow
Questions on designing a URL shortening service
Questions on system functional requirements
Questions on capacity estimation
Questions on API design
Questions on database design
Questions on cache
Questions on designing a video streaming platform like YouTube
Getting to understand the problem and establish your design scope
Questions on designing dropbox
Questions on designing Twitter
Discuss about the core features
Things you need to know before your next system design interview
And lots more

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very high level

I believe this book is not for complete preparation, it is good if you have just started... you will have idea of the problems being asked in interview and will be able to approach a problem

Comically poorly written

I very rarely leave negative reviews, but I truly don’t understand the positive reviews for this book. It’s written like an 8th grade school report by a kid who’s trying to meet a word count limit. The author wastes half the book explaining things you already know, like “dress well” and “first impressions matter,” or insults you by explaining what a “chat app” is and enumerating 10 different examples of chat apps someone might use. The advice is unstructured and pedantic. On top of that, the narrator talks like he’s teaching an English as a second language class, the tone is so forced that it comes across as extremely awkward.

Good audio book. But no diagrams to download

I liked the material. But the audio book references system design diagrams and these diagrams are not available for downloading. So it's harder to follow. Wish they provided the diagrams and important notes as a downloadble document.

Pretty useless. Basically System design examples

You can honestly just find these examples online for free. It is not generic enough to apply to a real system design interview. Unless you know you'll have one of these system design interviews, I'd look elsewhere.

Poor grammar

The grammatical errors were a turn off for me. If that is something you think might annoy you, then I would recommend looking elsewhere. It irked me so much that I had to stop listening.