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  1. 1How would you build TinyURL?HardSystem designTechnical· Google, Meta
  2. 2Design a cache controller.HardSystem design· Google
  3. 3Design a solution to move the data from Cassandra in System X to system Y.HardSystem design· Google
  4. 4Design a denoising system for sounds.HardSystem design· Google
  5. 5Design a distributed file system.HardSystem design· Databricks, Google
  6. 6Design a metrics and logging service.HardSystem designTechnical· Booking.com, Google
  7. 7Design an ML experiment tracking and analysis platform.HardAI MLSystem design· Google
  8. 8Design a reservation and payment system for a parking garage.HardSystem design· Amazon, AtoB
  9. 9Design a sentence autocomplete suggestion system. Example: Input - 'I hope you feel', Output - 'better soon'. This system is used in applications like Gmail, Google Docs, and Hangouts.HardSystem design· Google
  10. 10Design a system to upgrade hundreds of thousands of machines on the Moon.HardSystem design· Amazon, Google
  11. 11Design TikTok.HardSystem design· Google, Meta
  12. 12Design a visual landmark recognition system.HardSystem designTechnical· Google
  13. 13Design a key-value store.HardSystem design· Accenture, Anthropic
  14. 14Estimate the storage needs for Google Photos on Pixel phones.HardProductSystem design· Google
  15. 15Estimate the storage needed for a day's worth of information from your brain.HardProductSystem design· Google
  16. 16How would you price a self-driving car?HardProductSystem design· Google
  17. 17Design a system to map IP address ranges to geographic region labels.HardSystem design· Google
  18. 18How would you price the Amazon Kindle at launch?HardProductSystem design· Google