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Top 50 production systems Interview Questions

The most frequently asked production systems questions across all roles and companies, ranked by real interview frequency. Updated daily.

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System DesignStart here. 22 questions · ~176 min
Deploy Production LLM ArchitecturesMedium
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Compare production LLM deployment architectures and explain trade-offs across latency, cost, quality, reliability, and operations.

llm deploymentproduction systemsarchitectureCGITiger AnalyticsAccenture
Design a Collaborative Spreadsheet ServiceHard

Design a Google Sheets-like backend with concurrent editing, durable storage, snapshots, and scalable save/load paths.

production systemsdatabase accessdistributed systemsSalesforce
Compare Decoding StrategiesHard

Design a serving layer that supports greedy, beam, top-k, and top-p decoding with low latency and safe fallbacks.

production systemsinference latencymodel inferenceMicrosoft
Thoughts on Recent LLM AdvancesHard

Design how to evaluate and serve new LLM advances like DeepSeek and RL safely at scale.

challengesproduction systemscomputational costSalesforce
Newsletter Send OptimizationHard

Design an ML system to decide when and how to send newsletters to 10M customers, with evaluation and pseudo-code.

production systemsFeature Storenotification systemAdobe
ML Fundamentals and BenchmarkingMedium

Design a reliable model benchmarking workflow that compares classification and regression metrics, including F1-score, at scale.

production systemsFeature Storefailure modesSalesforce
Deterministic vs Probabilistic TradeoffsHard

Design how to decide when a Google GenAI product should use deterministic or probabilistic outputs.

production systemsnon-determinismModel ServingGoogle
Batch Pipeline with Schema DriftHard

Design a batch data pipeline that handles schema drift, SCD, and warehouse optimization at scale.

production systemsFeature StoreFeature DriftMicrosoft
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