In this video, Alex Golec, a Software Engineering Manager at Reddit and previously a Software Engineer at Google, uses his extensive experience to break down a mock Systems Design Interview.
This is the first of many videos in Inspect Element, an interviewing.io videos series where senior software engineers from top tech companies review mock interviews conducted on the interviewing.io platform. Through these videos, you'll learn the ins and outs of algorithmic/data structure & systems design interviews from the people responsible for conducting them at top companies.
Alex has years of experience interviewing candidates for major tech companies and in this video he provides his perspective on what the candidate is doing right, and what they could improve on. Among the things he covers in this video are:
● How to think about time management in the context of interviews
● Important but commonly missed factors in solutions
● Improvements on the proposed solution
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Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
00:47 - Interview starts
06:21 - Highlighting Interviewer's questioning
09:18 - Reviewing non-functionals
13:46 - Tip about writing
16:52 - Reviewing Time Management
22:14 - Reviewing component understanding
27:15 - Reviewing proposed solution
30:20 - Does it sound reasonable?
35:25 - Highlighting important interviewer question
39:39 - How to approach this
49:43 - Disagreeing with the design
54:49 - Reviewing cache
58:19 - What the candidate is missing
59:41 - Highlighting good question
1:01:47 - Questioning safety
1:04:01 - Closing thoughts / Review