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A System Design interview is required for all senior+ SWE candidates, plus other roles like at least SRE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg318hR5JY0 https://ww
by CydeWeys 6y ago
A System Design interview is required for all senior+ SWE candidates, plus other roles like at least SRE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg318hR5JY0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg318hR5JY0
Similar but smaller questions along these lines are given to more junior candidates often enough too, as one of multiple questions.
- joshuamorton 6y agoYour right though that candidates can get system design interviews, but "how many servers does it take to run gmail" is not anything like a system design interview. "How would you architect gmail" is. System design questions by their nature don't really have a correct answer. Your right though that candidates can get system design interviews.
- CydeWeys 6y agoEstimating how much traffic needs to be handled and what kind of resources it would take to handle it are absolutely part of both of those questions, which in reality are the same interview problem because a System Design interview isn't a single question but rather a long series of guided questions that cover architecture, scaling, and a lot more.