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🐲 How to prepare the system design interview

A step-by-step framework to solve this interview + 🎁 Free Notion Template

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Fran Soto
Dec 31, 2023
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Entry-level roles don’t have this interview and your knowledge from your time as a student is not relevant or it’s forgotten. Most people are afraid of it because they are self-taught in System Design.

Welcome to the guide all software engineers need to ace the system design interview at FAANG companies.

This is the last post in my 4 post series I’m writing about the technical interview for software engineers.

  • 🗺️ How to prepare the technical interview (Contains an explanation of my study framework)

  • 🧙‍♂️ How to prepare the behavioral interview.

  • 🤖 How to prepare the coding interview.

  • 🐲 How to prepare the system design interview. (this post).

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📝 The preparation framework

This is the planning to do before grinding problems.

1) Understand the mindset of this interview

When we talk about “Designing Youtube”, you won’t design it with all its complexity.

I can tell you from working on Amazon’s Search page. There’s no…

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