Product Manager Technical Interviews: System Design

[@kahaaninest]

Hi Dianna, Thank you so much for putting out the most comprehensive videos that breaks down the otherwise intimidating and tedious interview process so methodically. I got through both Amazon and Google. I have been recommending your videos to everybody asking. Thanks again for your insightful videos.

[@diannayau]

Yay! 🙌 congrats on nailing the offers from Amazon and Google! So happy to hear they were helpful in what is definitely a tedious journey of interviewing. Hope these videos can be helpful to your other friends!

[@amospan14]

I really enjoyed this system design interview through the lens of a technical product manager. Very insightful and well put together! Thank you! =)

[@dharmendrarathod9805]

I'm confused with 14:03 statement. Why do we need separate databases for writing and reading? Won\t that make it super complex and expensive?

[@HeMan9494]

Look up load balancing and read only replicas, it’s useful for a product where let’s say 90% of the traffic is consumption vs 10% production.

[@akhilmittalji6816]

When you have too many readers and a small number of writers, you wont like readers to suffer because writers are writing. Read about replication and read-heavy scenarios.

[@sanmeet]

Thanks for the detailed analysis of system design question. Your content is very easy to apply in actual job interviews.

[@diannayau]

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[@ananthapadmanabhanss4553]

Thanks Dianna :) Your insights are great!! You have broken down the sole Functional and Non-Functional aspects of Product and make everybody realize breaking into chunks and working on it gives 'n' number of feasible ideas to build wonderful products.

[@diannayau]

So glad it’s helpful!

[@mohammedsamir4759]

You made system design so much easier. Great work Dianna. Have made notes of all the 5 steps in my notion doc. Will be watching system design videos for different products and will be getting feedback from engineers. wonderful tips btw

[@diannayau]

so glad it's helpful! funny enough, i feel like system design questions are MORE straightforward than product sense questions. What do you think?

[@mohammedsamir4759]

@@diannayau Agreed.

[@hi2pal]

Hi Dianna, Apart from using Google, do you have recommendations for other online resources to learn the technical concepts that are the building blocks of system design?

[@emhtptc]

love your work Dianna, thank you for this.

[@diannayau]

You are so welcome!

[@simonz_02]

watching this video from 2024 I have to say, with the brutal job market today, one may have to master all these stuff to pass interviews for a PM job, instead of being able to learn on the job as you go

[@rohitsemwal]

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[@akhilmittalji6816]

My org is recruiting only technical program managers now as most of our products are quite complex and its difficult to make a product manager understand the complexity engineers face.