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System Design for a Real-Time Trivia Battle Royale Platform

OpenAISoftware Engineer · Onsite · Oct 2026

Sharing the system design question from one round of my OpenAI technical interview. The question was given on the spot, and the design below is my solution. Happy to discuss. Question Design a real-time trivia battle royale platform: dozens to a hundred or so players join a room, questions are released round by round, and each round eliminates the players who answer wrong and the slowest player.…

Shared by a candidate · reported Oct 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.