Crack the System Design interview: tips from a Twitter software engineer

Zhia Chong
10 min readApr 19, 2018

I recently wrote about how I landed offers from multiple top-tier tech companies. During my interview preparation process, I read up on a lot of material and prepared a set of notes on how to tackle system design problems. In this article, I’d like to share those tips with you all.

If you’re a fresh graduate with no experience in large-scale distributed systems, or even a seasoned engineer with years of experience under your belt, this article will be useful for you.

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Zhia Chong

Software Engineer @Twitter, retired tennis player@🇲🇾 my website @zhiachong.com