How To Best Prepare For System Design Interviews
In this article, we are going to discuss how to best prepare for system design interviews. Most candidates don’t know how to effectively and efficiently prepare for system design interviews. If you are reading this article, you must be one of them. Most of the time you spend practicing Leetcode. And then you try to give three to four weeks, in the end at most, to prepare for the system design interviews. And the common way most people prepare for system dry interviews is by going through online resources like YouTube videos or different blog posts or different free or paid courses. However, most of the time you just go through those resources. For example, you may watch a YouTube video, may skip it a couple of times as well, or you may go and read a blog post about some system, or you go through some chapters on some paid courses such as mine (link below), and read the design of the distributed services like and that’s it. However, just going through YouTube videos or reading some online blog posts, or going through some course is not enough. You still need to understand what is the best way to prepare for system design using that resource.
Of course, it helps a little bit because you are educating yourself. You are gaining information about how to design different distributed systems. But it really does not help you in improving your overall systems and…