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Will Fong
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Learning space for a data and analytics professional
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Update: Thanks everyone for the support and feedback! See this discussion on this post on Hacker News, Linkedin, Eric Weber’s Linkedin post. Also, feel free to check out my Medium post on Metric Design. Thank you!
Compiler design dependency comic, originally from http://www.xkcd.com/754/
Comic courtesy of XKCD, via Creative Commons License
One interview that candidates often struggle with is the systems design interview. Even if you know your algorithms and write clean code, that code needs to run on a computer somewhere—and then things quickly get complicated. A truly unbelievable amount of complexity lies beneath something as simple as visiting Google in your browser. While most of that complexity is abstracted away from the end user, as a system designer you have to face it head on, and the more you can handle, the better.
We’re looking for generalists with depth—people who are good at most things, and great at some. If systems design isn’t your strength, that’s okay, but you should at least be able to talk and reason competently about a complex system.
Read on to learn about what we’re looking for and how you can prepare.