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| cracking the design interview: System Design Interview - An Insider's Guide Alex Xu, 2020-06-12 The system design interview is considered to be the most complex and most difficult technical job interview by many. Those questions are intimidating, but don't worry. It's just that nobody has taken the time to prepare you systematically. We take the time. We go slow. We draw lots of diagrams and use lots of examples. You'll learn step-by-step, one question at a time.Don't miss out.What's inside?- An insider's take on what interviewers really look for and why.- A 4-step framework for solving any system design interview question.- 16 real system design interview questions with detailed solutions.- 188 diagrams to visually explain how different systems work. |
| cracking the design interview: Grokking the System Design Interview Design Gurus, 2021-12-18 This book (also available online at www.designgurus.org) by Design Gurus has helped 60k+ readers to crack their system design interview (SDI). System design questions have become a standard part of the software engineering interview process. These interviews determine your ability to work with complex systems and the position and salary you will be offered by the interviewing company. Unfortunately, SDI is difficult for most engineers, partly because they lack experience developing large-scale systems and partly because SDIs are unstructured in nature. Even engineers who've some experience building such systems aren't comfortable with these interviews, mainly due to the open-ended nature of design problems that don't have a standard answer. This book is a comprehensive guide to master SDIs. It was created by hiring managers who have worked for Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon. The book contains a carefully chosen set of questions that have been repeatedly asked at top companies. What's inside? This book is divided into two parts. The first part includes a step-by-step guide on how to answer a system design question in an interview, followed by famous system design case studies. The second part of the book includes a glossary of system design concepts. Table of Contents First Part: System Design Interviews: A step-by-step guide. Designing a URL Shortening service like TinyURL. Designing Pastebin. Designing Instagram. Designing Dropbox. Designing Facebook Messenger. Designing Twitter. Designing YouTube or Netflix. Designing Typeahead Suggestion. Designing an API Rate Limiter. Designing Twitter Search. Designing a Web Crawler. Designing Facebook's Newsfeed. Designing Yelp or Nearby Friends. Designing Uber backend. Designing Ticketmaster. Second Part: Key Characteristics of Distributed Systems. Load Balancing. Caching. Data Partitioning. Indexes. Proxies. Redundancy and Replication. SQL vs. NoSQL. CAP Theorem. PACELC Theorem. Consistent Hashing. Long-Polling vs. WebSockets vs. Server-Sent Events. Bloom Filters. Quorum. Leader and Follower. Heartbeat. Checksum. About the Authors Designed Gurus is a platform that offers online courses to help software engineers prepare for coding and system design interviews. Learn more about our courses at www.designgurus.org. |
| cracking the design interview: Understanding Distributed Systems, Second Edition Roberto Vitillo, 2022-02-23 Learning to build distributed systems is hard, especially if they are large scale. It's not that there is a lack of information out there. You can find academic papers, engineering blogs, and even books on the subject. The problem is that the available information is spread out all over the place, and if you were to put it on a spectrum from theory to practice, you would find a lot of material at the two ends but not much in the middle. That is why I decided to write a book that brings together the core theoretical and practical concepts of distributed systems so that you don't have to spend hours connecting the dots. This book will guide you through the fundamentals of large-scale distributed systems, with just enough details and external references to dive deeper. This is the guide I wished existed when I first started out, based on my experience building large distributed systems that scale to millions of requests per second and billions of devices. If you are a developer working on the backend of web or mobile applications (or would like to be!), this book is for you. When building distributed applications, you need to be familiar with the network stack, data consistency models, scalability and reliability patterns, observability best practices, and much more. Although you can build applications without knowing much of that, you will end up spending hours debugging and re-architecting them, learning hard lessons that you could have acquired in a much faster and less painful way. However, if you have several years of experience designing and building highly available and fault-tolerant applications that scale to millions of users, this book might not be for you. As an expert, you are likely looking for depth rather than breadth, and this book focuses more on the latter since it would be impossible to cover the field otherwise. The second edition is a complete rewrite of the previous edition. Every page of the first edition has been reviewed and where appropriate reworked, with new topics covered for the first time. |
| cracking the design interview: Cracking the Coding Interview Gayle Laakmann McDowell, 2011 Now in the 5th edition, Cracking the Coding Interview gives you the interview preparation you need to get the top software developer jobs. This book provides: 150 Programming Interview Questions and Solutions: From binary trees to binary search, this list of 150 questions includes the most common and most useful questions in data structures, algorithms, and knowledge based questions. 5 Algorithm Approaches: Stop being blind-sided by tough algorithm questions, and learn these five approaches to tackle the trickiest problems. Behind the Scenes of the interview processes at Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Apple: Learn what really goes on during your interview day and how decisions get made. Ten Mistakes Candidates Make -- And How to Avoid Them: Don't lose your dream job by making these common mistakes. Learn what many candidates do wrong, and how to avoid these issues. Steps to Prepare for Behavioral and Technical Questions: Stop meandering through an endless set of questions, while missing some of the most important preparation techniques. Follow these steps to more thoroughly prepare in less time. |
| cracking the design interview: Cracking the IT Architect Interview Sameer Paradkar, 2016-11-30 The ultimate guide to successful interviews for Enterprise, Business, Domain, Solution, and Technical Architect roles as well as IT Advisory Consultant and Software Designer roles About This Book Learn about Enterprise Architects IT strategy and NFR – this book provides you with methodologies, best practices, and frameworks to ace your interview A holistic view of key architectural skills and competencies with 500+ questions that cover 12 domains 100+ diagrams depicting scenarios, models, and methodologies designed to help you prepare for your interview Who This Book Is For This book is for aspiring enterprise, business, domain, solution, and technical architects. It is also ideal for IT advisory consultants and IT designers who wish to interview for such a role. Interviewers will be able leverage this book to make sure they hire candidates with the right competencies to meet the role requirements. What You Will Learn Learn about IT strategies, NFR, methodologies, best practices, and frameworks to ace your interview Get a holistic view of key concepts, design principles, and patterns related to evangelizing web and Java enterprise applications Discover interview preparation guidelines through case studies Use this as a reference guide for adopting best practices, standards, and design guidelines Get a better understanding with 60+ diagrams depicting various scenarios, models, and methodologies Benefit from coverage of all architecture domains including EA (Business, Data, Infrastructure, and Application), SA, integration, NFRs, security, and SOA, with extended coverage from IT strategies to the NFR domain In Detail An architect attends multiple interviews for jobs or projects during the course of his or her career. This book is an interview resource created for designers, consultants, technical, solution, domain, enterprise, and chief architects to help them perform well in interview discussions and launch a successful career. The book begins by providing descriptions of architecture skills and competencies that cover the 12 key domains, including 350+ questions relating to these domains. The goal of this book is to cover all the core architectural domains. From an architect's perspective, it is impossible to revise or learn about all these key areas without a good reference guide – this book is the solution. It shares experiences, learning, insights, and proven methodologies that will benefit practitioners, SMEs, and aspirants in the long run. This book will help you tackle the NFR domain, which is a key aspect pertaining to architecting applications. It typically takes years to understand the core concepts, fundamentals, patterns, and principles related to architecture and designs. This book is a goldmine for the typical questions asked during an interview and will help prepare you for success! Style and approach This book will help you prepare for interviews for architectural profiles by providing likely questions, explanations, and expected answers. It is an insight-rich guide that will help you develop strategic, tactical, and operational thinking for your interview. |
| cracking the design interview: Cracking the PM Interview Gayle Laakmann McDowell, Jackie Bavaro, 2013 How many pizzas are delivered in Manhattan? How do you design an alarm clock for the blind? What is your favorite piece of software and why? How would you launch a video rental service in India? This book will teach you how to answer these questions and more. Cracking the PM Interview is a comprehensive book about landing a product management role in a startup or bigger tech company. Learn how the ambiguously-named PM (product manager / program manager) role varies across companies, what experience you need, how to make your existing experience translate, what a great PM resume and cover letter look like, and finally, how to master the interview: estimation questions, behavioral questions, case questions, product questions, technical questions, and the super important pitch. |
| cracking the design interview: Cracking Digital VLSI Verification Interview Robin Garg, Ramdas Mozhikunnath, 2016-03-13 How should I prepare for a Digital VLSI Verification Interview? What all topics do I need to know before I turn up for an interview? What all concepts do I need to brush up? What all resources do I have at my disposal for preparation? What does an Interviewer expect in an Interview? These are few questions almost all individuals ponder upon before an interview. If you have these questions in your mind, your search ends here as keeping these questions in their minds, authors have written this book that will act as a golden reference for candidates preparing for Digital VLSI Verification Interviews. Aim of this book is to enable the readers practice and grasp important concepts that are applicable to Digital VLSI Verification domain (and Interviews) through Question and Answer approach. To achieve this aim, authors have not restricted themselves just to the answer. While answering the questions in this book, authors have taken utmost care to explain underlying fundamentals and concepts. This book consists of 500+ questions covering wide range of topics that test fundamental concepts through problem statements (a common interview practice which the authors have seen over last several years). These questions and problem statements are spread across nine chapters and each chapter consists of questions to help readers brush-up, test, and hone fundamental concepts that form basis of Digital VLSI Verification. The scope of this book however, goes beyond technical concepts. Behavioral skills also form a critical part of working culture of any company. Hence, this book consists of a section that lists down behavioral interview questions as well. Topics covered in this book:1. Digital Logic Design (Number Systems, Gates, Combinational, Sequential Circuits, State Machines, and other Design problems)2. Computer Architecture (Processor Architecture, Caches, Memory Systems)3. Programming (Basics, OOP, UNIX/Linux, C/C++, Perl)4. Hardware Description Languages (Verilog, SystemVerilog)5. Fundamentals of Verification (Verification Basics, Strategies, and Thinking problems)6. Verification Methodologies (UVM, Formal, Power, Clocking, Coverage, Assertions)7. Version Control Systems (CVS, GIT, SVN)8. Logical Reasoning/Puzzles (Related to Digital Logic, General Reasoning, Lateral Thinking)9. Non Technical and Behavioral Questions (Most commonly asked)In addition to technical and behavioral part, this book touches upon a typical interview process and gives a glimpse of latest interview trends. It also lists some general tips and Best-Known-Methods to enable the readers follow correct preparation approach from day-1 of their preparations. Knowing what an Interviewer looks for in an interviewee is always an icing on the cake as it helps a person prepare accordingly. Hence, authors of this book spoke to few leaders in the semiconductor industry and asked their personal views on What do they look for while Interviewing candidates and how do they usually arrive at a decision if a candidate should be hired?. These leaders have been working in the industry from many-many years now and they have interviewed lots of candidates over past several years. Hear directly from these leaders as to what they look for in candidates before hiring them. Enjoy reading this book. Authors are open to your feedback. Please do provide your valuable comments, ratings, and reviews. |
| cracking the design interview: Elements of Programming Interviews Adnan Aziz, Tsung-Hsien Lee, Amit Prakash, 2012 The core of EPI is a collection of over 300 problems with detailed solutions, including 100 figures, 250 tested programs, and 150 variants. The problems are representative of questions asked at the leading software companies. The book begins with a summary of the nontechnical aspects of interviewing, such as common mistakes, strategies for a great interview, perspectives from the other side of the table, tips on negotiating the best offer, and a guide to the best ways to use EPI. The technical core of EPI is a sequence of chapters on basic and advanced data structures, searching, sorting, broad algorithmic principles, concurrency, and system design. Each chapter consists of a brief review, followed by a broad and thought-provoking series of problems. We include a summary of data structure, algorithm, and problem solving patterns. |
| cracking the design interview: The System Design Interview, 2nd Edition Lewis C. Lin, Shivam P. Patel, 2021-06-07 The System Design Interview, by Lewis C. Lin and Shivam P. Patel, is a comprehensive book that provides the necessary knowledge, concepts, and skills to pass your system design interview.It's written by industry professionals from Facebook & Google. Get their insider perspective on the proven, practical techniques for answering system design questions like Design YouTube or Design a TinyURL solution.Unlike others, this book teaches you exactly what you need to know.FEATURING THE PEDALS METHOD?, THE BEST FRAMEWORK FOR SYSTEM DESIGN QUESTIONSThe book revolves around an effective six-step process called PEDALS:- Process Requirements- Estimate- Design the Service- Articulate the Data Model- List the Architectural Components- ScalePEDALS demystifies the confusing system design interview by breaking it down into manageable steps. It's almost like a recipe: each step adds to the next. PEDALS helps you make a clear progression that starts from zero and ends with a functional, scalable system.The book explains how you can use PEDALS as a blueprint for acing the system design interview.The book also includes detailed examples of how you can use PEDALS for the most popular system design questions, including:- Design YouTube- Design Twitter- Design AutoSuggest- Design a TinyURL solutionALSO COVERED IN THE BOOK-What to expect and what interviewers look for in an ideal answer- How to estimate server, storage, and bandwidth needs- How to design data models and navigate discussions around SQL vs. NoSQL- How to draw architecture diagrams- How to build a basic cloud architecture- How to scale a cloud architecture for millions of users- Learn the best system strategies to reduce latency, improve efficiency, and maintain security- Review of technical concepts including CAP Theorem, Hadoop, and Microservices |
| cracking the design interview: The UX Careers Handbook Cory Lebson, 2021-12-15 This second edition of The UX Careers Handbook offers you all the great advice of the first edition—freshly updated—plus a new chapter on critical soft skills, much more on becoming a UX leader, and a 17th user experience (UX) career pathway. The UX Careers Handbook, Second Edition, offers you an insider's advice on learning, personal branding, networking skills, building your resume and portfolio, and actually landing that UX job you want, as well as an in-depth look at what it takes to get into and succeed in a UX career. Whether your interests include design, information architecture, strategy, research, UX writing, or any of the other core UX skillsets, you'll find a wealth of resources in this book. The book also includes: Insights and personal stories from a range of industry-leading UX professionals to show you how they broke into the industry and evolved their own careers over time Activities and worksheets to help you make good decisions and build your career Along with the book, you can explore its companion website with more resources and information to help you stay on top of this fast-changing field. Not only for job seekers, The UX Careers Handbook, Second Edition, is a must-have for Employers and recruiters who want to better understand how to hire and keep UX staff Undergraduate and graduate students thinking about their future careers Professionals in other careers who are thinking about starting to do UX work Cory Lebson has been a UX consultant and user researcher for over two decades. He is Principal and Owner of a small UX research consultancy, a builder of UX community, and a past president of the User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA). Not only a practitioner of UX, Cory teaches and mentors to help professionals grow their UX skills and conducts regular talks and workshops on topics related to both UX skills and career development. |
| cracking the design interview: Cracking The Machine Learning Interview Nitin Suri, 2018-12-18 A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts. -Bill Gates Despite being one of the hottest disciplines in the Tech industry right now, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning remain a little elusive to most.The erratic availability of resources online makes it extremely challenging for us to delve deeper into these fields. Especially when gearing up for job interviews, most of us are at a loss due to the unavailability of a complete and uncondensed source of learning. Cracking the Machine Learning Interview Equips you with 225 of the best Machine Learning problems along with their solutions. Requires only a basic knowledge of fundamental mathematical and statistical concepts. Assists in learning the intricacies underlying Machine Learning concepts and algorithms suited to specific problems. Uniquely provides a manifold understanding of both statistical foundations and applied programming models for solving problems. Discusses key points and concrete tips for approaching real life system design problems and imparts the ability to apply them to your day to day work. This book covers all the major topics within Machine Learning which are frequently asked in the Interviews. These include: Supervised and Unsupervised Learning Classification and Regression Decision Trees Ensembles K-Nearest Neighbors Logistic Regression Support Vector Machines Neural Networks Regularization Clustering Dimensionality Reduction Feature Extraction Feature Engineering Model Evaluation Natural Language Processing Real life system design problems Mathematics and Statistics behind the Machine Learning Algorithms Various distributions and statistical tests This book can be used by students and professionals alike. It has been drafted in a way to benefit both, novices as well as individuals with substantial experience in Machine Learning. Following Cracking The Machine Learning Interview diligently would equip you to face any Machine Learning Interview. |
| cracking the design interview: Deep Learning Interviews Shlomo Kashani, 2020-12-09 The book's contents is a large inventory of numerous topics relevant to DL job interviews and graduate level exams. That places this work at the forefront of the growing trend in science to teach a core set of practical mathematical and computational skills. It is widely accepted that the training of every computer scientist must include the fundamental theorems of ML, and AI appears in the curriculum of nearly every university. This volume is designed as an excellent reference for graduates of such programs. |
| cracking the design interview: Principles of Computer System Design Jerome H. Saltzer, M. Frans Kaashoek, 2009-05-21 Principles of Computer System Design is the first textbook to take a principles-based approach to the computer system design. It identifies, examines, and illustrates fundamental concepts in computer system design that are common across operating systems, networks, database systems, distributed systems, programming languages, software engineering, security, fault tolerance, and architecture.Through carefully analyzed case studies from each of these disciplines, it demonstrates how to apply these concepts to tackle practical system design problems. To support the focus on design, the text identifies and explains abstractions that have proven successful in practice such as remote procedure call, client/service organization, file systems, data integrity, consistency, and authenticated messages. Most computer systems are built using a handful of such abstractions. The text describes how these abstractions are implemented, demonstrates how they are used in different systems, and prepares the reader to apply them in future designs.The book is recommended for junior and senior undergraduate students in Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Distributed Operating Systems and/or Computer Systems Design courses; and professional computer systems designers. - Concepts of computer system design guided by fundamental principles - Cross-cutting approach that identifies abstractions common to networking, operating systems, transaction systems, distributed systems, architecture, and software engineering - Case studies that make the abstractions real: naming (DNS and the URL); file systems (the UNIX file system); clients and services (NFS); virtualization (virtual machines); scheduling (disk arms); security (TLS) - Numerous pseudocode fragments that provide concrete examples of abstract concepts - Extensive support. The authors and MIT OpenCourseWare provide on-line, free of charge, open educational resources, including additional chapters, course syllabi, board layouts and slides, lecture videos, and an archive of lecture schedules, class assignments, and design projects |
| cracking the design interview: Cracking the TPM Code Abraham Chackungal, 2020-05-16 Cracking the PM Interview is a comprehensive book about landing a Technical Program Manager role in any big tech company. The book contains 80+ Questions, Sample Answers, 25+ Worksheets, 7+ Mock Interviews, Mind Maps. Questions range from Behavioural, PM specific, Technical Questions, System Design & Generic Questions. Inspiration: As interviewers, it was noticed that many stellar program managers fail in TPM interviews due to incorrect guidance. This course is primarily focused as a complete guide to master the TPM interview, both technical and non-technical. It's is created in consultation with interviewers who've been working for companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon. The questions you practice here, have been repeatedly asked in all these top companies. Hope our efforts help you to get your next big paycheque! |
| cracking the design interview: Cracking the Leadership Code Alain Hunkins, 2020-03-24 Become the effective, proactive leader you aspire to be with this practical tool kit for leading people and organizations Yes, you can learn the skills to effectively lead people, organizations, and employees. With the right motivation and knowledge, you can be a leader who knows what it takes to succeed. Throughout his extensive experience in training leaders, author Alain Hunkins discovered that many leaders shared a common trait. They were mainly focused on what they were doing but not so focused on how they were doing it, especially when it came to working with other people. By strengthening their leadership capabilities, they could become trusted leaders within their organization, improve employee communications, and build bridges across hierarchies. Cracking the Leadership Code shares the valuable principles and practices that Hunkins developed and refined during the 20+ years he’s worked with leaders. When you crack the code, you’ll have a new operating model for organizational leadership that will help your teams thrive in a 21st century economy. Discover the brain science behind leading people Get inspired by real life leadership stories Use a practical leadership tool kit to become a better leader Learn how to communicate, influence, and persuade others, more effectively than ever before With this book as a resource, you’ll have a new perspective, a new framework, and new tools at your disposal, readily available to guide your leadership. You’ll learn to establish proactive, leader-follower relationships. To do this, you’ll use the interconnected elements of Connection, Communication, and Collaboration. When you learn from the author’s insightful experiences working with organizations around the world, you can accelerate your leadership development and become the leader you’ve always aspired to be. |
| cracking the design interview: Cracking the Full Stack Developer Interview Hirako San, 2019-12-18 Cracking the Full Stack Developer Interview is the result of intensive curation of commonly asked interview questions, teaching you everything you need to know to land the best software developer jobs. Learn how to tackle challenges surrounding the various technologies programmers are asked to master in the modern software development industry. Develop techniques to handle non technical questions, and how to prepare for any technical interview. This handbooks contains proven approaches to pass the screening phase of the most prestigious IT companies. About the author I am a software engineer, having worked as a developer, then as a software architect, I have taken and conducted hundreds of interviews for full stack developer roles. The condensed practical questions listed in this book reflect what is commonly asked by recruiting managers and specialised senior engineers alike. What's inside - Over 250 technical technical interview questions, ranging from the basics to the trickiest problems. - Hints on how to dissect logical challenges. - A walk-through of how to listen to questions and communicate solutions. - Coverage of data structure and core algorithms. - List of detailed interview formats showing you how Google, Facebook and others hire developers. - Insight on how to prepare for and excel on the the soft skills and behaviour side of the interview. - Over 150 non technical questions - Guide on how to write your resume and pass the screening phase Topic Covered Programming Principles. Algorithms Databases including NoSQL Networking Web Application Security HTML5 & CSS JavaScript on the front and back end Commonly asked questions on popular frameworks and libraries 12 Challenging puzzles How to write the perfect resume Interview Formats exposed Non Technical interview questions asked by renowned tech companies Negotiation tips Interview Cheat Cheats |
| cracking the design interview: Cracking the Behavioral Interview Questions Nazanin Bakhshi, Pooya Amini, 2019-11-17 Over the past several years of interviewing candidates, we have come across a large number of talented engineers who have excellent technical competencies but also have considerable discomfort in explaining the details of a current project and how its design challenges were resolved. In this book, we have collected the behavioral questions most frequently presented in software engineering interviews. We provided strategies for addressing each question, followed by sample responses from engineers currently working in large tech companies. This collection has been validated with a number of hiring managers to ensure that the dialogues are aligned with their expectations. |
| cracking the design interview: Cracking the PM Career Jackie Bavaro, Gayle Laakmann McDowell, 2022-04 Product management is a big role, and this is a big book. This comprehensive guide teaches new PMs and experienced PMs the skills, frameworks, and practices to become great product managers. ?Product skills: Drive better product decisions by conducting user research, performing data analysis, prototyping, writing product docs, and understanding technology.?Execution skills: Run your team well and deliver your projects quickly, smoothly, and effectively with project management, incremental development, launch processes, and good time management.?Strategic skills: Set a better direction for your team and optimize for long-term impact with vision, strategy, roadmapping, and team goals. Learn what it means to be more strategic.?Leadership skills: Lead more effectively by developing your personal mindset, collaboration, communication, inspiration, and mentorship skills.?People management: Learn leadership skills for managers, including coaching, recruiting, interviewing, and creating organizational structures.?Careers: Navigate your career by understanding the career ladder, setting goals, and translating your accomplishments into advancement. |
| cracking the design interview: Building Mobile Apps at Scale Gergely Orosz, 2021-04-06 While there is a lot of appreciation for backend and distributed systems challenges, there tends to be less empathy for why mobile development is hard when done at scale. This book collects challenges engineers face when building iOS and Android apps at scale, and common ways to tackle these. By scale, we mean having numbers of users in the millions and being built by large engineering teams. For mobile engineers, this book is a blueprint for modern app engineering approaches. For non-mobile engineers and managers, it is a resource with which to build empathy and appreciation for the complexity of world-class mobile engineering. The book covers iOS and Android mobile app challenges on these dimensions: Challenges due to the unique nature of mobile applications compared to the web, and to the backend. App complexity challenges. How do you deal with increasingly complicated navigation patterns? What about non-deterministic event combinations? How do you localize across several languages, and how do you scale your automated and manual tests? Challenges due to large engineering teams. The larger the mobile team, the more challenging it becomes to ensure a consistent architecture. If your company builds multiple apps, how do you balance not rewriting everything from scratch while moving at a fast pace, over waiting on centralized teams? Cross-platform approaches. The tooling to build mobile apps keeps changing. New languages, frameworks, and approaches that all promise to address the pain points of mobile engineering keep appearing. But which approach should you choose? Flutter, React Native, Cordova? Native apps? Reuse business logic written in Kotlin, C#, C++ or other languages? What engineering approaches do world-class mobile engineering teams choose in non-functional aspects like code quality, compliance, privacy, compliance, or with experimentation, performance, or app size? |
| cracking the design interview: Designing Data-Intensive Applications Martin Kleppmann, 2017-03-16 Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. In addition, we have an overwhelming variety of tools, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, stream or batch processors, and message brokers. What are the right choices for your application? How do you make sense of all these buzzwords? In this practical and comprehensive guide, author Martin Kleppmann helps you navigate this diverse landscape by examining the pros and cons of various technologies for processing and storing data. Software keeps changing, but the fundamental principles remain the same. With this book, software engineers and architects will learn how to apply those ideas in practice, and how to make full use of data in modern applications. Peer under the hood of the systems you already use, and learn how to use and operate them more effectively Make informed decisions by identifying the strengths and weaknesses of different tools Navigate the trade-offs around consistency, scalability, fault tolerance, and complexity Understand the distributed systems research upon which modern databases are built Peek behind the scenes of major online services, and learn from their architectures |
| cracking the design interview: Grokking the Java Interview Javin Paul, 2021-01-26 Cracking Java Interview is not easy and one of the main reasons for that is Java is very vast. There are a lot of concepts and APIs to master to become a decent Java developer. Many people who are good at general topics like Data Structure and Algorithms, System Design, SQL, and Database fail to crack the Java interview because they don't spend time to learn the Core Java concepts and essential APIs and packages like Java Collection Framework, Multithreading, JVM Internals, JDBC, Design Patterns, and Object-Oriented Programming. This book aims to fill that gap and introduce you to classical Java interview questions from these topics. By going through these questiosn and topic you will not only expand your knowledge but also get ready for your Next Java interview. If you are preparing for Java interviews then I highly recommend you to go through these questions befor your telephonic or face-to-face interviews, you will not only gain confidence and knowelge to answer the question but also learn how to drive Java interview in your favor. This is the single most important tip I can give you as a Java developer. Always, remember, your answers drive interviews, and these questions will show you how to drive Interviewer to your strong areas. All the best for the Java interview and if you have any questions or feedback you can always contact me on twitter javinpaul (http: //twitter.com/javinpaul) or comment on my blogs Javarevisited(http: //javarevisited.blogspot.com) and Java67(http: //java67.c |
| cracking the design interview: The Google Resume Gayle Laakmann McDowell, 2011-01-25 The Google Resume is the only book available on how to win a coveted spot at Google, Microsoft, Apple, or other top tech firms. Gayle Laakmann McDowell worked in Google Engineering for three years, where she served on the hiring committee and interviewed over 120 candidates. She interned for Microsoft and Apple, and interviewed with and received offers from ten tech firms. If you’re a student, you’ll learn what to study and how to prepare while in school, as well as what career paths to consider. If you’re a job seeker, you’ll get an edge on your competition by learning about hiring procedures and making yourself stand out from other candidates. Covers key concerns like what to major in, which extra-curriculars and other experiences look good, how to apply, how to design and tailor your resume, how to prepare for and excel in the interview, and much more Author was on Google’s hiring committee; interned at Microsoft and Apple; has received job offers from more than 10 tech firms; and runs CareerCup.com, a site devoted to tech jobs Get the only comprehensive guide to working at some of America’s most dynamic, innovative, and well-paying tech companies with The Google Resume. |
| cracking the design interview: Solving Product Design Exercises Artiom Dashinsky, 2018-02-07 Practice your product design and UX skills. Prepare for your next job interview. Redesign the NYC metrocard system. Design a dashboard for a general practitioner. Redesign an ATM. Learn how to solve and present exercises like these, that top startups use to interview designers for product design and UI/UX roles. Today top companies are looking for business-minded designers who are not just focused on visuals. With this book you can practice this kind of mindset, prepare for job interview, learn how to interview other designers and find concepts for projects for your portfolio. What will you learn from this book: Prepare for the design interview -- prepare for the design exercise and learn more about how tech companies hire product designers. Improve your portfolio -- use product challenges to showcase in your porfolio instead of unsolicited visual redesigns. Step up your design career -- practice your product design skills to become a better designer and prepare for your next career move. Interview designers -- learn how to interview designers to evaluate their skills in the most efficient and scalable way. What's inside? A 7-step framework for solving product design exercises 30+ examples of exercises similar to exercises used by Google, Facebook, Amazon etc. 5 full solutions for product design exercises 5 short interviews with design leaders that worked at Apple, Google, Pinterest, IDEO etc. |
| cracking the design interview: Decode and Conquer Lewis C. Lin, 2013-11-28 Land that Dream Product Manager Job...TODAYSeeking a product management position?Get Decode and Conquer, the world's first book on preparing you for the product management (PM) interview. Author and professional interview coach, Lewis C. Lin provides you with an industry insider's perspective on how to conquer the most difficult PM interview questions. Decode and Conquer reveals: Frameworks for tackling product design and metrics questions, including the CIRCLES Method(tm), AARM Method(tm), and DIGS Method(tm) Biggest mistakes PM candidates make at the interview and how to avoid them Insider tips on just what interviewers are looking for and how to answer so they can't say NO to hiring you Sample answers for the most important PM interview questions Questions and answers covered in the book include: Design a new iPad app for Google Spreadsheet. Brainstorm as many algorithms as possible for recommending Twitter followers. You're the CEO of the Yellow Cab taxi service. How do you respond to Uber? You're part of the Google Search web spam team. How would you detect duplicate websites? The billboard industry is under monetized. How can Google create a new product or offering to address this? Get the Book that's Recommended by Executives from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle & VMWare...TODAY |
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| cracking the design interview: Cracking the Data Science Interview Maverick Lin, 2019-12-17 Cracking the Data Science Interview is the first book that attempts to capture the essence of data science in a concise, compact, and clean manner. In a Cracking the Coding Interview style, Cracking the Data Science Interview first introduces the relevant concepts, then presents a series of interview questions to help you solidify your understanding and prepare you for your next interview. Topics include: - Necessary Prerequisites (statistics, probability, linear algebra, and computer science) - 18 Big Ideas in Data Science (such as Occam's Razor, Overfitting, Bias/Variance Tradeoff, Cloud Computing, and Curse of Dimensionality) - Data Wrangling (exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, data cleaning and visualization) - Machine Learning Models (such as k-NN, random forests, boosting, neural networks, k-means clustering, PCA, and more) - Reinforcement Learning (Q-Learning and Deep Q-Learning) - Non-Machine Learning Tools (graph theory, ARIMA, linear programming) - Case Studies (a look at what data science means at companies like Amazon and Uber) Maverick holds a bachelor's degree from the College of Engineering at Cornell University in operations research and information engineering (ORIE) and a minor in computer science. He is the author of the popular Data Science Cheatsheet and Data Engineering Cheatsheet on GCP and has previous experience in data science consulting for a Fortune 500 company focusing on fraud analytics. |
| cracking the design interview: Coding Interview Questions Narasimha Karumanchi, 2012-05 Coding Interview Questions is a book that presents interview questions in simple and straightforward manner with a clear-cut explanation. This book will provide an introduction to the basics. It comes handy as an interview and exam guide for computer scientists. Programming puzzles for interviews Campus Preparation Degree/Masters Course Preparation Big job hunters: Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Yahoo, Flip Kart, Adobe, IBM Labs, Citrix, Mentor Graphics, NetApp, Oracle, Webaroo, De-Shaw, Success Factors, Face book, McAfee and many more Reference Manual for working people Topics Covered: Programming BasicsIntroductionRecursion and BacktrackingLinked Lists Stacks Queues Trees Priority Queue and HeapsGraph AlgorithmsSortingSearching Selection Algorithms [Medians] Symbol TablesHashing String Algorithms Algorithms Design Techniques Greedy Algorithms Divide and Conquer Algorithms Dynamic Programming Complexity Classes Design Interview Questions Operating System Concepts Computer Networking Basics Database Concepts Brain Teasers NonTechnical Help Miscellaneous Concepts Note: If you already have Data Structures and Algorithms Made Easy no need to buy this. |
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| cracking the design interview: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture Martin Fowler, 2012-03-09 The practice of enterprise application development has benefited from the emergence of many new enabling technologies. Multi-tiered object-oriented platforms, such as Java and .NET, have become commonplace. These new tools and technologies are capable of building powerful applications, but they are not easily implemented. Common failures in enterprise applications often occur because their developers do not understand the architectural lessons that experienced object developers have learned. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture is written in direct response to the stiff challenges that face enterprise application developers. The author, noted object-oriented designer Martin Fowler, noticed that despite changes in technology--from Smalltalk to CORBA to Java to .NET--the same basic design ideas can be adapted and applied to solve common problems. With the help of an expert group of contributors, Martin distills over forty recurring solutions into patterns. The result is an indispensable handbook of solutions that are applicable to any enterprise application platform. This book is actually two books in one. The first section is a short tutorial on developing enterprise applications, which you can read from start to finish to understand the scope of the book's lessons. The next section, the bulk of the book, is a detailed reference to the patterns themselves. Each pattern provides usage and implementation information, as well as detailed code examples in Java or C#. The entire book is also richly illustrated with UML diagrams to further explain the concepts. Armed with this book, you will have the knowledge necessary to make important architectural decisions about building an enterprise application and the proven patterns for use when building them. The topics covered include · Dividing an enterprise application into layers · The major approaches to organizing business logic · An in-depth treatment of mapping between objects and relational databases · Using Model-View-Controller to organize a Web presentation · Handling concurrency for data that spans multiple transactions · Designing distributed object interfaces |
| cracking the design interview: Cracking Design Interviews Muralidhar NIMMAGADDA, 2017-11-20 Are you preparing for technical interviews? Do you know the number one cause of people failing to crack interviews is lack of preparation? Though coding is still the major part of technical interviews, companies these days are including atleast one system design question to check the expertise of the candidate in designing large scale systems. For example :- careers page of facebook clearly mentions there will be one round of system design interview. Sample questions will be like Design Twitter or Design an e-commerce website like amazon. So, How do you prepare to tackle such tough questions in interviews? Unfortunately, there are no good resources to learn system design. Part of it comes through practical experience and part of it from understanding various architectures and tradeoffs. Added to that, in most cases there wont be a single solution to the problem. Depending on the conversation and interviewer, interview can go in any direction and may go deep into certain areas. So, it makes preparing for system design interviews very challenging. This book is written primarily to help candidates get ready for the system design interview in short period of time. It provides step-by-step approach ( 10 steps ) to navigate through any system design interview effortlessly. It also provides guidance on how to design each layer of software systems like Storage Layer, Cache Layer, Application Layer, Web Layer, Client Layer etc. It covers topics like High-Availability, Scalability, Consistency that are important properties of any software system. It also provides sample solutions for designing write-heavy systems like dropbox and read-heavy systems like twitter. Check it out. All the best. Happy interviewing. |
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| cracking the design interview: How to Get a Job in Web Development RealToughCandy, 2018-07-31 How to Get a Job in Web Development is designed for junior web developers. Whether you’re coming from a coding bootcamp, are completely self-taught, or graduated from college with a tech-related degree, this book is for you. Written by RealToughCandy. In this book, you will learn how to: • Expertly craft the ‘holy clover’ of application materials: your resume, cover letter, GitHub page, and portfolio. • Leverage the power of LinkedIn, Meetups, and social media. • Handle follow-up emails and phone calls. • Prepare for the multiple types of interviews you will encounter, whether via phone, video conference, or in person. • Strategically apply to jobs so you can maximize your salary demands during negotiation. • Efficiently organize and prioritize the jobs you’ve applied to. • Craft results-driven email check-ins with your potential employer. • Reduce your vulnerabilities for discrimination. • And much, much more! No awkward whiteboard interviews. No hour-long explanation of Big O notation. Just practical, actionable steps that will put you far ahead of the pack when it comes to getting a job in web development. Now let's go get that job! Just finished reading your book and all I can say is WOW! Mind you since May of 2016 I have taken about 6 online courses specifically looking for employment and around three of them were specifically for either how to get an IT or Web Developer job. These courses cannot hold a candle to the majority of the information you put in this book! -George M., Web Developer WHY I WROTE THIS BOOK: When I started my web development journey, I was a lost hiker in the digital woods. I knew I wanted to build web apps, but didn’t know what those people called themselves. Were they website builders? Programmers? The term ‘software engineer’ floated around a lot online – was that my aspiration? Since I didn’t know exactly what I was looking for, I spent a lot of time reading and watching materials that were nothing but discouraging: mock Google coding interviews with whiteboards and markers. Lots of articles and videos that name-dropped things like binary trees, Big O notation, and time complexity. Forum post upon forum post that gave away actual coding interview questions from the biggest tech companies in the world like Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. Making things worse, some web developers I had discovered on YouTube were talking about a really good, popular book for coding interviews. I checked it out and once again my stomach sank. “I’m never going to make it in this field,” I said to myself. “I’ve been studying and practicing and building projects for months, and I still have no idea what these people are talking about.” What they didn’t tell me was that the book is geared towards senior software engineers trying to get a job with Amazon and Google. I wanted to quit my coding journey. In fact, I did quit. The difference was, I didn’t stay quit. Something told me to keep pushing forward, keep building projects to put in my portfolio and Github, keep reaching out and trying to find clients who needed websites. I kept pushing until I got a job as a fullstack web developer at a data company. As it turns out, the internet isn’t very generous to our career field. Beginners are especially marginalized. There aren’t any quality one-stop resources for discovering one of the most important questions – if not the most important question – web developers have. “How do I get a job in this field?” I wanted to change the junior web developer tech landscape with this book. My goal is for every junior developer who reads this to find a job. And if you take the recommended actions in this book, you can do it. |
| cracking the design interview: Cracking Spring Microservices Interviews Munish Chandel, 2018-02-28 This ebook discusses 100 plus real problems and their solutions for microservices architecture based on Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Cloud Native Applications. It covers core concepts of microservices architecture, various design patterns, interview questions & answers, security in microservices, testing strategies and best practices in distributed system design. Table of Contents: 1. Core concepts related Spring powered microservices architecture 2. Introduction to Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Cloud Native Applications, Netflix OSS 3. Design Patterns in microservices architecture - API Gateway, Hystrix, etc. 4. 100 plus Interview Questions 5. Security - OAuth2 and JWT 6. Testing Strategies in microservices architecture 7. Best Practices and common pitfalls |
| cracking the design interview: Cracking the Code to a Successful Interview Evan Pellett, 2016-12-13 Featured on CBS and WBZ Radio, Evan Pellett is the keynote guest speaker on Nightside with Dan Rea. You may have heard Evan as the radio expert on interviewing across the United States. Cracking the Code to a Successful Interview is a groundbreaking new scientific, proactive, cutting-edge, hands-on, proven approach to job interviews by an award-winning, highly decorated recruiter. This REAPRICH eight-step interview method will give you a proactive way to take control of your interview. You will learn the secret, never-before-published “questions behind the questions.” These are the questions that every manager unconsciously needs answered in order to hire you. |
| cracking the design interview: Java By Comparison Simon Harrer, Jörg Lenhard, Linus Dietz, 2018-03-22 Write code that's clean, concise, and to the point: code that others will read with pleasure and reuse. Comparing your code to that of expert programmers is a great way to improve your coding skills. Get hands-on advice to level up your coding style through small and understandable examples that compare flawed code to an improved solution. Discover handy tips and tricks, as well as common bugs an experienced Java programmer needs to know. Make your way from a Java novice to a master craftsman. This book is a useful companion for anyone learning to write clean Java code. The authors introduce you to the fundamentals of becoming a software craftsman, by comparing pieces of problematic code with an improved version, to help you to develop a sense for clean code. This unique before-and-after approach teaches you to create clean Java code. Learn to keep your booleans in check, dodge formatting bugs, get rid of magic numbers, and use the right style of iteration. Write informative comments when needed, but avoid them when they are not. Improve the understandability of your code for others by following conventions and naming your objects accurately. Make your programs more robust with intelligent exception handling and learn to assert that everything works as expected using JUnit5 as your testing framework. Impress your peers with an elegant functional programming style and clear-cut object-oriented class design. Writing excellent code isn't just about implementing the functionality. It's about the small important details that make your code more readable, maintainable, flexible, robust, and faster. Java by Comparison teaches you to spot these details and trains you to become a better programmer. What You Need: You need a Java 8 compiler, a text editor, and a fresh mind.That's it. |
| cracking the design interview: The Software Engineering Manager Interview Guide Vidal Graupera, Interviewing can be challenging, time-consuming, stressful, frustrating, and full of disappointments. My goal is to help make things easier for you so you can get the engineering leadership job you want. The Software Engineering Manager Interview Guide is a comprehensive, no-nonsense book about landing an engineering leadership role at a top-tier tech company. You will learn how to master the different kinds of engineering management interview questions. If you only pick up one or two tips from this book, it could make the difference in getting the dream job you want. This guide contains a collection of 150+ real-life management and behavioral questions I was asked on phone screens and by panels during onsite interviews for engineering management positions at a variety of big-name and top-tier tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, LinkedIn, Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Pinterest, Salesforce, Intuit, Autodesk, et al. In this book, I discuss my experiences and reflections mainly from the candidate’s perspective. Your experience will vary. The random variables include who will be on your panel, what exactly they will ask, the level of training and mood of the interviewers, their preferences, and biases. While you cannot control any of those variables, you can control how prepared you are, and hopefully, this book will help you in that process. I will share with you everything I’ve learned while keeping this book short enough to read on a plane ride. I will share tips I picked up along the way. If you are interviewing this guide will serve you as a playbook to prepare, or if you are hiring give you ideas as to what you might ask an engineering management candidate yourself. CONTENTS: Introduction Chapter 1: Answering Behavioral Interview Questions Chapter 2: The Job Interviews Phone Screens Prep Call with the Recruiter Onsite Company Values Coding, Algorithms and Data structures System Design and Architecture Interviews Generic Design Of A Popular System A Design Specific To A Domain Design Of A System Your Team Worked On Lunch Interview Managerial and Leadership Bar Raiser Unique One-Off Interviews Chapter 3: Tips To Succeed How To Get The Interviews Scheduling and Timelines Interview Feedback Mock Interviews Panelists First Impressions Thank You Notes Ageism Chapter 4: Example Behavioral and Competency Questions General Questions Feedback and Performance Management Prioritization and Execution Strategy and Vision Hiring Talent and Building a Team Working With Tech Leads, Team Leads and Technology Dealing With Conflicts Diversity and Inclusion |
| cracking the design interview: Web Scalability for Startup Engineers Artur Ejsmont, 2015-07-03 This invaluable roadmap for startup engineers reveals how to successfully handle web application scalability challenges to meet increasing product and traffic demands. Web Scalability for Startup Engineers shows engineers working at startups and small companies how to plan and implement a comprehensive scalability strategy. It presents broad and holistic view of infrastructure and architecture of a scalable web application. Successful startups often face the challenge of scalability, and the core concepts driving a scalable architecture are language and platform agnostic. The book covers scalability of HTTP-based systems (websites, REST APIs, SaaS, and mobile application backends), starting with a high-level perspective before taking a deep dive into common challenges and issues. This approach builds a holistic view of the problem, helping you see the big picture, and then introduces different technologies and best practices for solving the problem at hand. The book is enriched with the author's real-world experience and expert advice, saving you precious time and effort by learning from others' mistakes and successes. Language-agnostic approach addresses universally challenging concepts in Web development/scalability—does not require knowledge of a particular language Fills the gap for engineers in startups and smaller companies who have limited means for getting to the next level in terms of accomplishing scalability Strategies presented help to decrease time to market and increase the efficiency of web applications |
| cracking the design interview: Twilight of the Elites Christopher Hayes, 2012 Analyzes scandals in high-profile institutions, from Wall Street and the Catholic Church to corporate America and Major League Baseball, while evaluating how an elite American meritocracy rose throughout the past half-century before succumbing to unprecedented levels of corruption and failure. 75,000 first printing. |
| cracking the design interview: Deep Learning and the Game of Go Kevin Ferguson, Max Pumperla, 2019-01-06 Summary Deep Learning and the Game of Go teaches you how to apply the power of deep learning to complex reasoning tasks by building a Go-playing AI. After exposing you to the foundations of machine and deep learning, you'll use Python to build a bot and then teach it the rules of the game. Foreword by Thore Graepel, DeepMind Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology The ancient strategy game of Go is an incredible case study for AI. In 2016, a deep learning-based system shocked the Go world by defeating a world champion. Shortly after that, the upgraded AlphaGo Zero crushed the original bot by using deep reinforcement learning to master the game. Now, you can learn those same deep learning techniques by building your own Go bot! About the Book Deep Learning and the Game of Go introduces deep learning by teaching you to build a Go-winning bot. As you progress, you'll apply increasingly complex training techniques and strategies using the Python deep learning library Keras. You'll enjoy watching your bot master the game of Go, and along the way, you'll discover how to apply your new deep learning skills to a wide range of other scenarios! What's inside Build and teach a self-improving game AI Enhance classical game AI systems with deep learning Implement neural networks for deep learning About the Reader All you need are basic Python skills and high school-level math. No deep learning experience required. About the Author Max Pumperla and Kevin Ferguson are experienced deep learning specialists skilled in distributed systems and data science. Together, Max and Kevin built the open source bot BetaGo. Table of Contents PART 1 - FOUNDATIONS Toward deep learning: a machine-learning introduction Go as a machine-learning problem Implementing your first Go bot PART 2 - MACHINE LEARNING AND GAME AI Playing games with tree search Getting started with neural networks Designing a neural network for Go data Learning from data: a deep-learning bot Deploying bots in the wild Learning by practice: reinforcement learning Reinforcement learning with policy gradients Reinforcement learning with value methods Reinforcement learning with actor-critic methods PART 3 - GREATER THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS AlphaGo: Bringing it all together AlphaGo Zero: Integrating tree search with reinforcement learning |
| cracking the design interview: Strange Chemistry Steven Farmer, 2017-06-14 This book opens the audience’s eyes to the extraordinary scientific secrets hiding in everyday objects. Helping readers increase chemistry knowledge in a fun and entertaining way, the book is perfect as a supplementary textbook or gift to curious professionals and novices. • Appeals to a modern audience of science lovers by discussing multiple examples of chemistry in everyday life • Addresses compounds that affect everyone in one way or another: poisons, pharmaceuticals, foods, and illicit drugs; thereby evoking a powerful emotional response which increases interest in the topic at hand • Focuses on edgy types of stories that chemists generally tend to avoid so as not to paint chemistry in a bad light; however, these are the stories that people find interesting • Provides detailed and sophisticated stories that increase the reader’s fundamental scientific knowledge • Discusses complex topics in an engaging and accessible manner, providing the “how” and “why” that takes readers deeper into the stories |
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