System Design Interview Prep Kit
About the Prep Kit
This kit includes all you need to effectively prepare for you system design interviews for software engineering, technical project/product/program manager or engineering manager roles.
I developed it as a template for obsidian, based on my personal interview preparation routine which landed me my current job as a senior software engineer at Microsoft. I put it together to help you stay ahead of the game in
- Systematic interview preparation
- Manage your interviewing process
It's based on Obsidian a free and open source knowledge base that works on local Markdown files.
What's included in the Template
System Architecture Knowledge Base
- 200+ Technical terms & concepts
- 10+ Cheatsheets for system components
- 5+ Common Architecture patterns
System Design Interview Preparation
- 50+ System Design Questions
- 10+ Company Interview Process Templates
- Capacity Estimation Cheatsheet
- Templates to Mock Interviews, Interview Recap etc.
Tools, Plugins and Addons
- Architecture Drawing tool (Excalidraw)
- Custom system design component library
- Simple Math editor
- Kanban Board to track your applications
What the Kit helps you with in detail...
Diagrams and Notes all in one Place
You can store all your editable diagrams and notes in a single file, no need to switch between multiple tools create screenshots of your design. They are always accessible and just a single click away.
System Design Component Library
Each systems consists of components like databases, caches, services etc. The templates comes with a component library I created especially for exercising system design interviews. The elements are implementation agnostic and allow you to describe concepts without getting lost in implementation details. As a bonus each component comes with a cheat sheet that gives you a rough idea how and when to us it.
System Architecture Knowledge Base
You might come across a technical term you are not familiar with? Thanks to the knowledge base you don't have to interrupt your flow, just lookup the term on the spot.
I hope this gives you a good idea of the template, there are many more feature to explore...
A Little About Me
I am a senior software engineer at Microsoft, besides that I help other engineers to land their jobs. Under the brand "Big Tech Coach" I create interview-focused courses and resources especially with focus on system design.