How To Crack System Design Interviews As A Software Engineer

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Gaurav Sen (gkcs)Founder at InterviewReady. Ex-Uber, YouTube creator
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Total time: 1 hour, 1 minute
Course Overview

System design interviews are an integral part of the software hiring process. In this course, we dive into what a typical interview is like, what parameters are assessed, and how you can excel in the interviews. If you are a software developer looking to ace your system design interviews, this course is for you.

Here is what you will learn:

  1. What happens in a system design interview
  2. The dos and donts when designing a system
  3. How you can prepare for an interview
  4. What metrics are used to score a candidate
  5. How you can self-evaluate your interview performance
Meet Gaurav Sen (gkcs)

Gaurav Sen is the founder of InterviewReady. He has expertise in distributed systems from working at Uber and Directi.

He has been invited to speak at events on distributed systems by University of Houston-Texas, IIT Gandhinagar, and BITS Hyderabad.

Gaurav's YouTube channel on system design has over 500k subscribers.


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Product ManagerCognistx AI

This course is awesome! It helped me understand how large scale systems work. Definitely worth it if your looking to get better at design.

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Mid-Level Software EngineerJio Platforms

The content is too good. It's quite engaging!

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Satya NishanthEngineering @Twilio

The Course is Awesome. It’s like Netflix and chill

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Shalin ShahSoftware Engineer at Grab, Singapore

Overall, an informative course with interesting topics and in-depth explanation in a short amount of time.

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Senior Software Engineer [E5]Unemployed

Great overview of the strategies that are often overlooked in System Design interviews. I especially liked the system design scorecard for evaluating interviews objectively.

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