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  1. 1Design an app that helps a museum generate revenue.MediumProductSystem design· Google
  2. 2Design a bookshelf for elderly people.MediumProductSystem design· Google
  3. 3Design a monitoring system for 1000 web servers.MediumSystem designTechnical· Amazon, Google
  4. 4Design a rate limiter.MediumSystem design· Amazon, Google
  5. 5Design a smart refrigerator.MediumProductSystem design· Google
  6. 6Design a system to deny services to requests from banned IPs, as per information provided by security.gov.x.MediumSystem design· Google
  7. 7Design a system to log messages in orderMediumSystem design· Google, Microsoft
  8. 8Design a timer system.MediumProductSystem design· Google
  9. 9Design a web crawler.MediumSystem design· Anthropic, Google
  10. 10Design a load balancer.MediumSystem design· Google, Mastercard
  11. 11Pick an airport and estimate the number of people going through the security scan every day.MediumProductSystem design· Google
  12. 12Estimate the amount of storage needed for Google Photos.MediumProductSystem design· Google
  13. 13How would you handle Gmail accounts when two users create the same username from different countries?MediumDataProduct· Google
  14. 14How would Google enter the food delivery space?MediumProductSystem design· Google
  15. 15How would you upgrade 5000 servers?MediumSystem designTechnical· Google
  16. 16How would you increase the number of users on YouTube?MediumProductSystem design· Google
  17. 17How would you monetize Google Assistant?MediumProductSystem design· Google
  18. 18What should be the north star metric for Google Photos?MediumDataSystem design· Google
  19. 19You received user feedback that Yelp's restaurant recommendation is not personal enough. What would you do?MediumAI MLProduct· Google
  20. 20If you had unlimited resources at Google, what would you build and why?MediumProductSystem design· Google
  21. 21How do concurrent user flows work in Google Docs?MediumSystem designTechnical· Google
  22. 22How would you design an autocomplete search results page?MediumSystem designTechnical· Google
  23. 23Design Google Street View using 1000 cars to map every address and image worldwide.MediumSystem designTechnical· Google
  24. 24Design a product similar to Google Docs for photo editing collaboration.MediumSystem designTechnical· Google