Walk through a recent project design
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This question evaluates the candidate's proficiency in end-to-end system design—covering requirements definition, architecture and component design, data modeling, scalability, trade-off analysis, and operational readiness—within the System Design domain for a software engineer role.
Walk me through a recent project you led end-to-end. Outline the problem, functional and non-functional requirements, architecture (services, data stores, APIs), key design decisions, trade-offs, and how you evaluated alternatives. Describe scaling considerations, data model, dependencies, operational concerns (observability, deployments, rollbacks), and how you measured success. Include one significant failure or bottleneck you encountered, how you debugged it, and what you would change in a v2.
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