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Resources to Prepare for a System Design Interview

Get familiar with additional resources and guidelines to prepare for the System Design interview.

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Substantial preparation is necessary to increase our odds of getting the job we apply for. Depending on a candidate’s seniority and proficiency, different candidates need different times for interview preparation. For an average candidate, three to four months might be required to prepare for a System Design interview.

In the subsequent sections, we have listed additional resources to help prepare for the System Design interview in a more comprehensive way.

Additional resources

After completing this course, you have learned how to analyze, architect, and scale complex systems. While you’ve covered the substantial depth and breadth of traditional and fresh design problems, moving from knowledge to successful interview performance requires targeted practice.

To help you solidify your understanding and excel in your System Design interview, the following activities and resources are highly recommended to expedite your final preparation:

Free System Design lessons

  • Key Concepts to Prepare for the System Design Interview

  • Scalable Systems 101

  • Best practices for achieving low latency in System Design

  • Distributed System Design Patterns

  • System Analysis vs. System Design

  • API Design Interview vs. System Design Interview

  • System Design fundamentals for technical product managers

  • NeetCode Pro: Does it hold up for System Design interviews?

  • Does Google ask System Design interview questions for L4?

  • Design interview guide: Low-level OOD to Advanced System Design

  • System Design Interview PDF

  • The All-in-One System Design Master Template

System Design Case Studies

  • How Spotify Wrapped scales for 7M users: System Design case study

  • Amazon system design case study: How Amazon scales for Prime Day

  • Tips from a System Design expert: How Twilio Builds for Scale

  • Dropbox System Design

  • Ticketmaster System Design

At Educative, we are open to sharing technical knowledge with our learners. Our comprehensive repository of blogs comprises interview prep guides, FAANG-specific insights, and in-depth technical blogs. FAANG-specific System Design interview guides include Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Amazon, and Meta.

Note: You can explore Educative’s blogs to find more technical articles like this one to help you ace System Design interviews.

We’ve also curated the most impactful technical blogs and System Design deep-dives directly from industry giants like MAANG in the following section.

Technical blogs/System Design interview articles

Many companies regularly publish the technical details of their significant work in the form of technical blogs. We can study these blogs to gain insight into the company’s challenges or problems and the changes it made in the design to cope with them.

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There’s a fine line between what a company can hold back due to a competitive edge and what can be made public.

Some important technical blogs are Engineering at Meta, Meta Research, AWS Architecture Blog, Amazon Science Blog, Netflix TechBlog, Google Research, Engineering at Quora, Uber Engineering Blog, Databricks Blog, Pinterest Engineering, BlackRock Engineering, Lyft Engineering, and Salesforce Engineering.

We should always approach non-peer-reviewedA peer-reviewed material could be a research paper that was critiqued by at least three domain expert researchers, and all points were fixed to reviewers’ satisfaction before publishing in a reputable conference. material with caution. Think about what blogs say critically and with technical acumen to decide if what they say makes sense or not. If it doesn’t make sense, that could be an excellent opportunity to discuss the issue with peers.

Mock interviews

Mock interviews are a great way to prepare for System Design interviews. They involve pairing up with a friend and allowing them to ask questions. If it’s not possible to use a friend, another strategy is to record ourselves and play the role of both interviewer and interviewee. With this approach, we can critique ourselves or ask a knowledgeable friend for feedback.

It’s a good idea to gain experience by attending real interviews at tech companies. Once you’ve been through an interview or two, you’ll be better able to evaluate what went right and what didn’t. However, if you don’t have that opportunity, you can get a feel of a real interview by attempting a personalized System Design mock interview.