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A Detailed Guide on Conducting Effective System Design Interviews

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

System design interviews are becoming increasingly popular, and important, as the digital systems we work with become more complex. The term ‘system’ here refers to any set of interdependent modules that work together for a common purpose. Uber, Instagram, and Twitter (now X) are all examples of ‘systems’.

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Hardest tech roles to fill (+ solutions!)

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Although many engineers dislike whiteboard interviews, it is the holy grail of software architects. After all, they can draw, discuss, and explain their technical diagrams and system designs better on a whiteboard. Are they excited while explaining the system? Engineering Managers. Management skills.

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CodeSignal Offers Its Interview Solution for Free To Flatten the Curve

CodeSignal

Engineering managers and interviewees can write code, run unit tests and debug mistakes together in over 70+ languages, frameworks, and libraries. The Monaco -powered IDE is nearly identical to Visual Studio Code, which means engineers feel comfortable and confident in the coding environment.

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Hardest tech roles to fill (+ solutions!)

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Although many engineers dislike whiteboard interviews, it is the holy grail of software architects. After all, they can draw, discuss, and explain their technical diagrams and system designs better on a whiteboard. Are they excited while explaining the system? Engineering Managers. Management skills.

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Hardest tech roles to fill (+ solutions!)

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Although many engineers dislike whiteboard interviews, it is the holy grail of software architects. After all, they can draw, discuss, and explain their technical diagrams and system designs better on a whiteboard. Are they excited while explaining the system? Engineering Managers. Management skills.

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The value of blameless culture — from IC to C-Suite

CircleCI

As a manager, it’s one thing to articulate aspirational culture with presentations and documents; what you actually enforce, allow, and encourage is something else entirely. As an engineering manager at CircleCI, I help enforce our blameless culture. The system behaved according to its design. The bottom line.

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Don’t Separate Design from Implementation

LeanEssays

With these high level goals and constraints, a small team of us proceeded to design, develop, install, and start up a sophisticated control system, with guidance from senior engineers who had been doing this kind of work for decades. Harold didn’t really care how the system would work, he just wanted the data.