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Storage and concurrency internals, with a strong preference for candidates who can reason about cost.
- Active questions
- 3
- Rounds covered
- 2
- Last reviewed
- Aug 22, 2026
Reported questions
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- System designHard
A single shard is taking 40% of writes
Your sharded datastore has one dominant key
3 reportsAug 14, 2026 - CodingMedium
Cache with expiry and bounded memory
Implement a cache with a maximum entry count and a per-entry TTL, with O(1) get and put
5 reportsAug 16, 2026 - CodingMedium
Make a payment write idempotent
A client retries a charge request after a timeout
5 reportsAug 22, 2026
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