u/forestryfowls wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Are there any example interviews for the product architecture variant specifically? I have an E5 interview coming up but I wasn’t sure if the Jordan has no life videos are more product or system level
u/michaelnovati replied ·
They are similar questions but will focus more in product use cases, whereas 'system design' asks more napkin math and intense questions on scaling the backend.
"Design Instagram"
Product: focused on APIs, high level block diagram, supporting web and mobile clients (and differences needed)
Systems: focused on scaling photo storage, performance of feed and optimizations to get the best performance, etc...