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The system design interviewer wanted to know how I would shard a distributed database for data that included "all the data" for "all the businesses in the world" with the intent of creating an app that would provide this information about any businesses within one mile of a specific location. The question started out about how to design this system, but the interviewer in the end didn't want to know about replication or security or any "system level" information, just how I would shard the distributed data.
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Senior Engineering Manager II

Interviewed at Meta

3.5★
Sep 22, 2025

The system design interviewer wanted to know how I would shard a distributed database for data that included "all the data" for "all the businesses in the world" with the intent of creating an app that would provide this information about any businesses within one mile of a specific location. The question started out about how to design this system, but the interviewer in the end didn't want to know about replication or security or any "system level" information, just how I would shard the distributed data.

Even though the interview was for a senior engineering manager role, the interviews were very technical. There were 2 rounds of design interviews with questions on how to design an access control system for Facebook and how to design a system which can store Wikipedia on a distributed set of mobile devices. During the coding session I had to solve a binary tree search problem. Sessions around projects and management style asked about experience with certain situations and how to solve them.
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Senior Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Meta

3.5★
Apr 17, 2021

Even though the interview was for a senior engineering manager role, the interviews were very technical. There were 2 rounds of design interviews with questions on how to design an access control system for Facebook and how to design a system which can store Wikipedia on a distributed set of mobile devices. During the coding session I had to solve a binary tree search problem. Sessions around projects and management style asked about experience with certain situations and how to solve them.

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