Interview Tips
Ideas, frameworks and talking points worth bringing into interviews. Each one has the core idea, lines to say out loud, the questions it answers, and where it fits the companies I'm talking to.
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Choose the database from three workload signalsLabel the workload, pick a data model, then name a product. Never start from the product.
Original Database Choices for System Design cheatsheet (LinkedIn) by Puneet Patwari
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Label the pattern before drawing boxesSpend the first thirty seconds of a system design question naming which of ten known patterns it is. The building blocks and trade-offs follow from the label.
Original The Only System Design Cheatsheet by Puneet Patwari