interviewing.io's video: Senior Engineer Breaks Down Systems Design Interview

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 💰 Get $100 off your first professional mock interview with this link!: https://iio.sh/r/CQ76 👉 Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmoqH48JV00 ❗❗ Disclaimer: All interviews are shared with explicit permission from the interviewer and the interviewee, and all interviews are anonymous. interviewing.io has the sole right to distribute this content. 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