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Let AI Evaluate Your System Design Interview Preparation

Let AI Evaluate Your System Design Interview Preparation

Use our interactive AI tool to revise your concept and get additional tips to ace your system design interview.

Identifying system requirements

You are in a System Design interview. The interviewer presents an open-ended question, such as: “Design a video streaming service like YouTube.”

Your task is to identify:

  1. Two functional requirements (what the system does) and

  2. Two non-functional requirements (how the system performs).

Identifying System Requirements

Scoping the problem

After identifying requirements for a video streaming service in the previous step, your next task is to ask two clarifying questions from the interviewer to scope the problem (specifically regarding data characteristics or user load).

Scoping the Video Streaming Design Problem
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