System Design & Scale interview questions

Design services that scale: capacity estimation, data flow, bottlenecks, and the architecture trade-offs a system-design round is really testing.

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Stand Up an Eval Harness for a Customer's LLM FeatureReported at Scale AImedium
Design a Reliable Pipeline for a Customer's Messy Event DataReported at Databricksmedium
Build RAG Over a Customer's Enterprise LakehouseReported at Databrickshard
Unify Three Messy Datasets for an Emergency-Response ModelReported at Scale AIhard
Scope an Ambiguous Customer Deployment from a Vague BriefReported at Palantirhard

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