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Have a System Design Interview coming up? Breeze through the basics and get interview-ready in hours through a selection of hand-picked practice problems.
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System design interviews play a vital role in hiring software engineers and managers. These interviews test the ability of the candidate to solve problems under different constraints. A candidate’s performance in a system design interview is a significant factor in deciding the hire/no-hire decisions and the level assigned to the incoming candidate. In this course, you’ll go through a miniature form of our primary course on system design: Grokking Modern System Design Interview for Engineers & Managers. This crash course aims to give you an overall gist of the system designing process using short, easy-to-digest problems. Each design problem of the course can be completed in about 15 minutes, giving you the flexibility to include them in your jam-packed schedules.
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WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

An understanding of system design to get you ready for the interview in less time
Familiarity with a collection of 30 frequently asked design problems and solutions
The ability to pick and choose a problem of your liking and complete it in 15 minutes
An understanding of how various popular web-scale services are constructed
The ability to learn how larger systems use smaller systems as building blocks
An understanding of system design to get you ready for the interview in less time

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33 Lessons41 Quizzes

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Introduction

2 Lessons

This chapter introduces you to System Design and its Interview, course structure, prerequisites, and how it prepares you for system design interviews.
Introduction to the System Design Interview Prep Crash Course
Course Structure for System Design Interview Prep Crash Course

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Concluding Remarks

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This chapter wraps up the course, summarizing key insights and preparing you for success in your upcoming system design interviews.
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