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Prep plans tailored to the interview style you are targeting

Different companies emphasize different signals. These tracks turn the existing SystemDesignHQ content into focused prep loops for the interview styles candidates actually face.

How to use this

01Choose the company style that best matches your target interview loop.
02Follow the curated mix of reading, practice problems, and mock interviews.
03Use your dashboard and history to review weak areas after each session.
3-week sprint
Backend engineer • Product infrastructure • Senior IC

Meta

High-scale consumer systems with crisp tradeoff communication

Prepare for Meta-style rounds by practicing feed systems, messaging, ranking, and the habit of separating write path, read path, and reliability concerns early.

Feed generation and rankingFan-out tradeoffsRealtime messaging and notificationsCaching and consistency under scale

Articles

3

Practice

8

Mocks

2

Open Meta trackView learner dashboard
4-week planPRO
Infrastructure engineer • Distributed systems • Senior backend

Google

Infrastructure depth, storage design, and calm systems thinking

This track emphasizes fundamentals, durability, storage architecture, and thoughtful tradeoff communication for infrastructure-heavy interviews.

Storage and metadata separationDurability and multi-region reliabilityCaching discipline and failure handlingStructured explanation under ambiguity

Articles

3

Practice

8

Mocks

1

Unlock Google trackView learner dashboard
2-week focused loopPRO
Backend engineer • Platform engineer • API infrastructure

Stripe

Reliable APIs, multi-tenant safeguards, and operational clarity

Target Stripe-style backend interviews by centering rate limiting, abuse protection, clean service boundaries, and calm discussion of reliability tradeoffs.

Rate limiting and tenant isolationOperational visibilityRetries, idempotency, and safe failure modesClear API and data-model thinking

Articles

2

Practice

6

Mocks

1

Unlock Stripe trackView learner dashboard
2-week storage trackPRO
Storage engineer • Product infrastructure • Backend engineer

Dropbox

File sync, metadata correctness, and user-trust-oriented design

Use this track to practice storage-heavy product design where sync behavior, durability, and user trust matter as much as raw scale.

Metadata and object storage separationSync and conflict handlingVersion history and recovery guaranteesClient behavior under unreliable networks

Articles

2

Practice

5

Mocks

1

Unlock Dropbox trackView learner dashboard