System Design Interviews: 10 Key Principles (with ex-Google EM)

An illuminating conversation about how to take on system design interviews. Mark was an engineering manager at Google for 13 years and is now a coach.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:07 1. Communicate efficiently
03:17 2. Scope the problem
06:11 3. Start drawing ~15 minutes in
09:18 4. Start with a simple design
14:33 5. Utilize lots of prep resources
15:28 6. Properly understand the problem
19:21 7. Practice, practice, practice!
25:10 8. Explain your thinking
28:03 9. Get comfortable with the Math
35:40 10. Use the drawing tool efficiently
40:45 Outro

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[MarceloDezem]

It's amazing the way Mark makes his point across with such clarity.

[DavidWoodMusic]

At this point Mark is carrying my career

[mahendraperiyadanam]

Good point: Listen to the interviewer. He told me that he has more questions to ask me and that I need to finish the system design and explain the call flow in 5 minutes , which I did. We covered more questions and answers. It was a friendly way testing someone’s depth and breadth knowledge and experience in a short time. Good luck every one.

[MarkSimithraaratchy]

Great video -- lot of helpful depth to Mark's explanations!

[fbor]

Nice Video, thanks guys. As I am seeing, Mark is having eye contact to us und the sound is very nice too, I wonder if you could share, what the setup is on Marks side!

[mahakomar]

Fantastic points called out. Thank you so much!

[kartikinn]

Thanks Mark for sharing your experiences. This is very helpful.

[RickBlaine]

I have watched Mark designing TikTok and Telegram. Both are great. I feel these are very similar to solution architect interview ?

[andreiristea]

"10. Use the drawing tool efficiently" - this is present in description, but missing in Chapters list

[aqumus]

Damn his blue eyes, reminds me of DUNE movie, Amazing video

[teleshyam]

Really nice video! i was wondering if i could help you edit your videos and make them more engaging as well as create short content out of them.

[rjthug]

are freshers get hired for system design role

[rajendrauppal]

audio volume is very low in these videos. or is it just me?