SYSTEM DESIGN INTERVIEW
Weak candidate:
- Jumps to Kafka, Redis, microservices
- Draws 12 boxes in 4 minutes
- Never asks QPS, data size, or latency
- Says “we’ll shard it” for 10K users
- Ignores failure cases
High-value candidate:
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Andrew Ng co-founded Google Brain and taught half this industry its first AI course.
"Prompting will be dead in 6 months.
Loops and graphs are replacing it".
In 100 minutes at Stanford he shows how to build agents that finish the work and sharpen themselves.
LLMs -> Agents -> Loops -> Graphs
The first 20 minutes go past where most $700 AI courses stop.
Most people are still learning prompts while the leverage moved two layers up.
Same model, same tokens, and the only thing that changes is the shape you run it in.
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Google SDE Roadmap (3 to 4 Months) 📌
Everything I'd focus on if my goal was Google.
1. DSA (40%)
NeetCode 150: neetcode.io
LeetCode Google Tag: leetcode.com/company/google/
Tech Interview Handbook: techinterviewhandbook.org
Target 250 to 300 problems, weighted toward graphs, trees, DP, and design a data structure questions since these show up disproportionately in Google loops.
2. System Design (20%)
ByteByteGo: bytebytego.com
System Design Primer: github.com/donnemartin/sy…
Designing Data Intensive Applications: dataintensive.net
3. Core CS (10%)
Master OS, DBMS, Computer Networks, and OOP.
OSTEP: pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/
GeeksforGeeks: geeksforgeeks.org
4. Low Level Design (10%)
Refactoring Guru: refactoring.guru
Head First Design Patterns
5. Behavioral and Googleyness (10%)
Google scores this as its own interview, not small talk. Prep 6 to 8 STAR stories covering conflict with a teammate, a failure, an ambiguous problem, leading without authority, and disagreeing with a decision.
6. Projects
Build 2 to 3 production-grade projects. Know the scaling decisions and trade-offs cold. Google interviewers probe project depth harder than most companies.
7. Mock Interviews (5%)
Pramp: pramp.comInterviewing.io: interviewing.io
Exponent: tryexponent.com
Do 15 to 20 mocks, and start early so feedback shapes your DSA and LLD prep instead of just validating it at the end.
8. Resume and Referral
Jake's Resume: overleaf.com/latex/template…
A referral meaningfully improves your recruiter screen odds versus a cold apply. Worth chasing early.
9. AI Knowledge
This is the cherry on the cake, not the cake itself. Know how to use AI coding tools well, understand prompting, and be able to explain when and why you would or wouldn't use AI assistance in a real engineering workflow. It won't carry you through a DSA round, but it shows up in how you talk about your projects and workflow.
10. YouTube
Striver, William Fiset, Abdul Bari, Gaurav Sen, ByteByteGo
11. Must Read
Google Developer Blog: developers.googleblog.com
Google Testing Blog: testing.googleblog.com
Google Research Blog: research.google/blog/
If you can consistently solve 250 to 300 quality LeetCode problems, build 2 to 3 production-grade projects, understand System Design and Core CS, nail your behavioral stories, practice 15 to 20 mock interviews, and stay sharp with AI tools on the side, you'll be in a strong position for Google SDE interviews.
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