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A system design interview evaluates how an engineer turns an ambiguous product problem into a practical architecture. The goal is rarely to discover one perfect design. Interviewers are more interested in how requirements are clarified, assumptions are made, scale is estimated, components are select

System design interviews are rarely failed because a candidate has never heard of caching, load balancing, replication, queues, or database sharding. More often, the problem is how those concepts are applied : designing before understanding requirements, estimating numbers that never influence the a