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System Design Interview Questions
Practice 9403 coding, system design and machine learning questions from 546 companies, sorted by role, topic and interview round. Every question has step-by-step hints, a code runner that supports 8 languages and an AI mentor; members also get the full solution walkthrough.
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- AppleHardSoftware EngineerDesign video platform and catalog system
This System Design question evaluates proficiency in large-scale architecture, API and storage design, data modeling, scalability and consistency trade-offs, ingestion and indexing pipelines, CDN and caching strategies, and operational concerns such as reliability, observability, security, and multi-region deployments across video-sharing and marketplace catalog domains. It is commonly asked in technical interviews to test architectural judgment and trade-off reasoning, emphasizing high-level practical application and operational planning rather than low-level implementation details.
System DesignOnsite - AppleMediumSoftware EngineerObject-Oriented Design: Hotel Room Booking System
Tests object-oriented domain modeling, interval-overlap availability logic, and concurrency control strategies to prevent double bookings in a hotel reservation system.
System DesignOnsiteObject-Oriented DesignConcurrencyDatabase Design - Applied IntuitionHardSoftware EngineerDesign a job scheduler
This question evaluates competency in designing scalable, durable distributed job schedulers, covering multi-tenant architecture, queuing and metadata persistence, execution semantics, idempotency, retries/dead-lettering, failure handling, and observability.
System DesignOnsite - Applied IntuitionMediumSoftware EngineerDesign a real-time 3D playback system for recorded vehicle logs
Design a system that plays recorded vehicle log data back as a smooth, seekable 3D scene without downloading the whole log first. It tests chunked, time-indexed streaming, prefetching and caching around the playhead, aligning data streams of different rates, and handling heavy sensor data at scale.
System DesignOnsite - Applied IntuitionMediumSoftware EngineerDesign a simulator to replay left-turn videos
This question assesses the ability to architect a high-throughput simulation system capable of retrieving, syncing, and replaying synchronized sensor data streams for autonomous vehicle testing.
System DesignOnsiteData StreamingStorage OptimizationLatency - AsanaMediumSoftware EngineerDesign a Collaborative Todo List
This question evaluates system-design skills for building real-time collaborative applications, covering data modeling, read/write paths, real-time synchronization, concurrent edits and reordering semantics, permission models, and consistency trade-offs within the System Design domain.
System DesignOnsite - Assorted HealthMediumSoftware EngineerDesign a Conversational Flight Search, Booking, and Price-Tracking Service
Design a conversational flight service that turns vague travel intent into grounded multi-leg search, safe booking, and useful price alerts. Cover clarification, authoritative supplier data, repricing, idempotent payment flows, shared price watches, quotas, privacy, and graceful degradation at large scale.
System DesignOnsite - AtlassianMediumSoftware EngineerCompute top-N posts in a workspace
This question evaluates skills in designing scalable, low-latency analytics and aggregation systems, covering event tracking, time-windowed ranking, stream processing, storage trade-offs (OLTP vs OLAP), caching, API design, and handling late or duplicate events.
System DesignOnsite - AtlassianMediumSoftware EngineerDesign Monitoring and Reliability for 99.99% Availability
Design a comprehensive observability and reliability framework to guarantee 99.99% availability for a multi-tenant cloud collaboration platform. The design must cover Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), automated burn-rate alerting, dependency fault isolation, and chaos recovery testing.
System DesignOnsiteSREObservabilityDistributed Systems - AtlassianMediumSoftware EngineerDesign Scalable Product Backends
This problem tests your ability to design a high-throughput, distributed task management system, focusing on data modeling, concurrency control, and scalability for collaborative features.
System DesignOnsiteScalabilityDatabase ModelingConcurrency - AtlassianMediumSoftware EngineerDesign a Social-Media Comments and Notifications System
Design social comments with APIs, indexed pagination, durable notifications, retry deduplication, and measured read/write scaling for hot posts.
System DesignOnsite - AtlassianMediumMachine Learning EngineerDesign a scalable chatbot platform
This problem tests your ability to architect a scalable, stateful chatbot system that integrates RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) with low-latency conversational requirements.
System DesignOnsiteLLMRAGScalability - AtlassianMediumSoftware EngineerDesign a tagging system and REST APIs
This question evaluates a candidate's ability in RESTful API design, data modeling, concurrency control, idempotency, pagination, and indexing/search strategies for a multi-tenant tagging system. It is commonly asked in the system design category to assess architectural decision-making and both conceptual understanding and practical application of endpoints, schema, and edge-case handling.
System DesignOnsite - AtlassianMediumSoftware EngineerDesign an access control system (RBAC + resource-based)
This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design a scalable authorization system incorporating RBAC and resource-based ACLs, testing competencies in access-control models, data schema design, policy evaluation, API design, caching strategies, and audit logging.
System DesignOnsite - AtlassianMediumSoftware EngineerDesign an image crawler for unlimited URLs
This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems for web crawling, covering competencies in concurrency, queueing and scheduling, deduplication, storage architecture, and observability.
System DesignOnsite - AtlassianMediumSoftware EngineerStore a hierarchy and return all children
This question evaluates understanding of hierarchical data modeling, REST API design, database schema choices (e.g., adjacency list vs alternatives), and systems-level concerns like scalability, pagination for large subtrees, and cycle prevention.
System DesignOnsite - AttentiveHardSoftware EngineerDesign a Kafka-Fed Event Analytics System for Long-Term Analysis
A system design exercise to build an event analytics system that ingests very high-volume, concurrent event streams from Kafka and stores them for long-term analysis. It tests Kafka topics, partitions, consumers and consumer groups, delivery guarantees, and durable, queryable storage design.
System DesignOnsite - AttentiveMediumSoftware EngineerDesign a Product Catalog Ingested From Full Retailer Snapshots With Admin Overrides
A system design question about a product catalog built from full retailer snapshot files, with 50,000 retailers, 11,000 read queries per second and a 400 ms latency target. It tests snapshot diffing, recovery from a mistaken upload, admin overrides that survive retailer updates, scaling ingestion, and observability.
System DesignOnsite - AttentiveMediumSoftware EngineerDesign a Real-Time Ad Serving System with Budgets and Impression Tracking
Design a real-time ad serving system that picks an eligible ad for each ad request, returns it within a tight latency budget, and records impressions and clicks for billing. Tests candidate retrieval and ranking, campaign data freshness, budget enforcement across many servers, and a deduplicated event pipeline.
System DesignOnsite - AttentiveMediumSoftware EngineerDesign a Reliable Third-Party Data Ingestion Service
Design an extensible, resilient data ingestion service capable of extracting data from heterogeneous third-party APIs while managing rate limits, pagination state, schema drift, and fault recovery.
System DesignOnsiteData IngestionDistributed SystemsRate Limiting - AttentiveMediumSoftware EngineerDesign a Scalable Catalog Service
Design a high-throughput, read-heavy catalog service supporting draft/publish lifecycles, item versioning, search projections, and resilient rollback mechanisms.
System DesignOnsiteCQRSE-CommerceCaching - AttentiveMediumSoftware EngineerDesign a Snapshot-Driven Product Catalog
Design a multi-tenant product catalog ingestion and serving system that processes periodic, complete merchant snapshots while deterministically layering administrator overrides, supporting atomic cutovers, and maintaining read consistency.
System DesignOnsitesystem-designe-commercedata-pipelines - AutodeskMediumSoftware EngineerDesign a Real-Time Multi-Source Change Data Pipeline
Design a low-latency CDC pipeline that joins multiple databases, propagates updates and deletes, recovers state, and maintains a queryable output dataset.
System DesignOnsite - BalyasnyHardSoftware EngineerExplain Kafka and Design Bulk Record Processing
This problem tests knowledge of distributed event streaming architecture, specifically handling high-throughput bulk processing while maintaining partition-level ordering and fault-tolerant delivery guarantees.
System DesignOnsiteKafkaDistributed SystemsBackpressure - BalyasnyHardSoftware EngineerSchedule Dependent Tasks on a Bounded Thread Pool
This problem tests the ability to design a task scheduling system that manages complex dependency graphs while operating under strict concurrency constraints.
System DesignOnsiteMultithreadingDAGConcurrency - BasetenMediumSoftware EngineerDesign an observability logging system for emitting and querying logs
System design question: build an observability logging system that lets services emit structured logs and lets engineers query them. It covers non-blocking client buffering, ingestion with backpressure and a durable buffer, time-partitioned storage, indexing versus scanning trade-offs, query execution limits, and isolating noisy services.
System DesignOnsite - BlinkHardSoftware EngineerDesign a Support Ticket Processing System
This question tests your ability to design a distributed, asynchronous ticket processing system that handles high volume, prioritizes SLAs, and ensures reliable data delivery.
System DesignOnsiteScalabilityMessage QueuesDistributed Systems - BloombergMediumSoftware EngineerDesign a fair event registration queue API
This question tests the ability to design a thread-safe, high-concurrency registration system that handles FIFO ordering, capacity constraints, and efficient cancellation operations.
System DesignOnsiteConcurrencyData StructuresAPI Design - BloombergMediumSoftware EngineerDesign in-memory trade subscription processor
This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design concurrent, high-throughput in-memory subscription matching systems, covering skills in data structure selection, algorithmic complexity analysis, and concurrency control.
System DesignOnsite - BloombergHardSoftware EngineerDesign streaming mention analytics with search and alerts
This question tests the ability to design a distributed, low-latency streaming pipeline that aggregates mention counts for entities, provides search capabilities, and triggers alerts based on configurable thresholds.
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