Systems design interview guide
Usman Masood is a VP of Engineering at Pipe and a systems design mentor at Outtalent . Previously, he worked as an engineering manager at Stripe , as well as a software engineer at PipelineDB , Locu, Facebook, and Microsoft.
Tilek Mamutov is a co-founder of Outtalent . Previously, he worked as a Project Lead at Google[x] , as well as in multiple software engineering, business, and other roles at Google.
The goal of this guide is to help software engineers show their best in systems design interviews at big tech companies. We provide tips on how to prepare for the interview, a framework for how to approach the interview, and what you should avoid during it.
These recommendations helped each Outtalent fellow we worked with get 2 to 5 offers at companies like Amazon, Facebook, Flexport, Google, Microsoft, Spotify, Stripe, and Uber.
We recognize that there are a lot of resources on this topic and you can go fairly deep into any of these topics. To address that, we recommend starting off with the following two resources:
