System Design: How to Build a Distributed System and Pass the Interview
summary
Covers how System Design interviews are structured at Big Tech and what interviewers evaluate (practical experience, architectural knowledge, service design and requirements handling). Presents concrete principles and recommendations to help senior/backend developers prepare for and pass system-design interview rounds and apply those practices to designing high-load distributed systems.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:12What is system design
- 6:00System design types
- 10:36Grades and requirements
- 13:24Interviewer communication
- 14:06Interview structure
- 17:58Functional requirements
- 20:24Non-functional requirements
- 26:07High-level design
- 29:12Component discussion
- 31:43Trade-offs and scaling
- 35:15Interview prep
- 44:42Practical application
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