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Facebook system design interview questions

• Design an online collaborative editing tool
• Design a distributed botnet
• How would you use a load balancer for memcache servers?
• How would you architect the Facebook newsfeed?
• Implement a typeahead feature

Google system design interview questions

• Design and implement statistics for a calendar
• Design a task scheduling feature
• Design a ticketing platform
• Design an elevator
• Design a boggle server
• Design a distributed ID generation system
• How would you deploy a solution for cloud computing to build in redundancy for the compute cluster?
• Design the server infrastructure for GMail

Amazon system design interview questions

• How would you design an electronic voting system?
• Design a warehouse system for Amazon
• Design an online poker game
• Design a system to interview candidates
• Design a search engine autocomplete
• Design an airport
• How would you design a system that reads book reviews from other sources and displays them on your online bookstore?
• Design a promotion mechanism which could give 10% cash back on a particular credit card
• How would you build software behind an amazon pick up location with lockers?

Microsoft system design interview questions

• How does buffer overflow work?
• How would you design an online portal to sell products?
• Design a new fitness wearable to measure heart rate
• Design a shopping cart

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