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Design a leaderboard system.

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Design a distributed leaderboard that lets millions of players view their score and the scores of the N players ranked immediately above and below them after each game.

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Snowflake · 3 years ago
"It was a very typical FAANG interview style. The coding questions are all very leet-code, so it's easy to practice. The design question was unique; I hadn't heard of it before. Not that not all engineers use a question from the internal question bank, but generally speaking it's fine. For system design, be sure to bank-of-envelope to justify why something needs to be a distributed system. Your approach might be overkill / underkill without doing this initial analysis, and you might come off as "just regurgitation sys-design interview formula""
Software Engineer · Senior / L5
Meta · 3 years ago
"It was overall a smooth experience. Be prepared to wait for 2 weeks to schedule interviews due to lack of interviewers."
Software Engineer · Senior / L5

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