Insider tips for your system design interview from a former Amazon hiring manager – plus 6 mock interviews for practice!
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Ace your next system design interview! Get tips, tricks, and practice interviews with a former hiring manager from Amazon, who interviewed thousands of software engineers and hired hundreds. Frank Kane will share the secrets of what your interviewer is looking for and the technologies you’re expected to know. Practice makes perfect, so you’ll also get six mock system design interviews with real-world interview questions from the biggest tech employers.
A technical interview loop is a demanding process, and the system design part is often the most challenging. This course gets you prepared, and maximizes your odds of landing a new job that could change your life.
About 5 hours of on-demand video content will cover what you need to know before starting your next interview:
- Techniques for scaling distributed systems and service fleets
- Database technologies and “NoSQL” solutions
- Designing Generative AI systems with Large Language Models, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and Agentic AI
- Use of caching to improve scalability and performance
- Designing for resiliency and handling failures
- Distributed storage solutions
- A review of algorithms and data structures
- Processing big data with Apache Spark
- An overview of cloud computing resources
- Interview strategies for structuring your system design interview
- Six full mock interviews with real-world system design interview questions
- General tips and tricks for a successful technical interview
Includes professionally transcribed English closed captions.
This course is for experienced software engineers who need some extra preparation prior to a challenging system design interview. Enroll now, and you’ll have every advantage going into your next tech interview!
Naveen Kumar G
I found the course helpful in my preparation for the System Design interviews and also helped in broadening my knowledge around design thinking and made me more confident on approaching complex technical & business problems.
Silpa Reddy Yaramala
Mock interviews are super useful and entire course is very well designed.
Jamaal Futa
Wanted to thank you immensely for your Udemy course on System Design. Was really key in helping me switch teams internally. I’ve recommended it to numerous people since!
Rajasekhar Yeligindla
This is one of the very few courses that are fun and interesting to learn. Thank you very much for designing beautifully..
Brian H
A great class, the mock design interview portion alone is worth it, definitely 5 stars and recommend this to others.
Anand
I just wanted to thank you for your System design course, because of that course I was able to clear my 6 rounds of system design interviews at Google and got the job.
Frank Kane
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Our courses are led by Frank Kane, a former Amazon and IMDb developer with extensive experience in machine learning and data science. With 26 issued patents and 9 years of experience at the forefront of recommendation systems, Frank brings real-world expertise to his teaching. His ability to explain complex concepts in accessible terms has helped over one million students worldwide gain valuable skills in machine learning, data engineering, and AI development.
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Introduction
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Designing Systems that Scale
Scalability: Introduction
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Sharding Databases / NoSQL
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ACID compliance and the CAP theorem
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Using CAP to Choose a Database
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Eviction Strategies for Caching
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Content Distribution Networks (CDN’s)
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Scaling your Data: Introduction
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Distributed Storage Solutions
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Algorithms and Data Structures
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Graphs and Graph Traversal
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Quiz: Algorithms and Data Structures
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Working with Big Data
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Cloud Computing: A Brief Overview
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Designing Generative AI Systems
Introduction: Generative AI Design (with Robo-Frank!)
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Intro to Large Language Model API’s and Context
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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
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Agentic AI, and Integrating AI Into Larger Systems
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Design Interview Strategies
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Mock Design Interviews
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URL Shortening Service: Q&A
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URL Shortening Service: Try It Yourself
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URL Shortening Service: System Design
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URL Shortening Service: Debrief
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Restaurant Reservation System: Q&A
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Restaurant Reservation System: Try It Yourself
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Restaurant Reservation System: System Design
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Restaurant Reservation System: Debrief
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Web Crawler: Try It Yourself
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Web Crawler: System Design
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Top-Sellers: Try It Yourself
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Top-Sellers: System Design
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Video Sharing Service: Q&A
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Video Sharing Service: System Design
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Video Sharing Service: Debrief
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General Tech Interview Tips
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What your Interviewer is Looking For
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Demonstrating Independence
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Keeping Up your Stamina; Asking Questions
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Good Luck on Your Interview!
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