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Shivam and I have poured our hearts into creating a system design book that breaks free from jargon, confusion, and intimidation. Our goal was to make it exceptionally clear and readable, even for non-experts.
In their pursuit of the Google Product Manager role, a candidate faced a technical challenge due to their non-technical background. They discovered my system design book, which proved crucial.
My system design book's structured approach helped the candidate tackle complex problems methodically. It provided clear explanations for basic system design, establishing their foundational knowledge.
The book's explanations of scaling strategies, like vertical and horizontal scaling, boosted the candidate's confidence for handling increased loads.
Product managers often ask how they can work more effectively with their engineers.
The most common area where product managers and engineers meet is in the discussion of requirements including:
Technical feasibility
Development estimates
Technical compromises
Technical brainstorming
Most product managers are intimidated when it comes to technical issues because they don't deal with the code base on a daily basis.
However, product managers shouldn't doubt themselves.
PMs are critical thinkers, so they can often provide a perspective that engineers lack. In addition, some engineers appreciate having a second opinion or brainstorming colleague when solving technical problems.
Aashish Singh made a good observation: the PEDALS framework from my book, The System Design Interview, is a fabulous tool to guide your technical discussions with your engineers.
How does Alexa or a Google Home device communicate with the cloud?
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How would you go about describing the “high level technical architecture” of a mobile application?
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How much space do you need to store a DNS database?
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How would you identify the last number of a linked list that has no null value at the end which points somewhere in between?
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Design an algorithm to schedule the police workforce in a large city like NYC or Chicago.
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Come up with an architecture for a fail safe system that protects your company's (large company of 4000 employees) source code and builds and dev-ops infra against all sorts of malware, virus, earthquakes etc. sort of attacks and failures Data redundancy, backups, operational guidelines, firewalls, RAID etc. all passe.
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Design a server side implementation for employee security badging system.
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Given a string with words and multiple white spaces around them, how would you trim it with only 1 white space between the words? For ex: input str = " Hello world " output = "Hello world".
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How much it would cost to roll out a Google Product? For instance, Google Photos and Google Phone?
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You have a an app deployed on a server physically located in US. The customers in AP region are seeing low performance. What will be the steps you would take? The interviewer is clear that there is no performance issue for US customers.
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How do you design a data model for extracting webpages?
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