Design a distributed rate limiter for an API gateway — Zoom interview
Reported in Zoom USA engineering loops. System design testing token bucket, sliding window, and Redis coordination.
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Reported in Zoom USA engineering loops. System design testing token bucket, sliding window, and Redis coordination.
Reported in Zoom USA engineering loops. Mid-to-senior design spanning WebSockets, message storage, and presence.
Reported in Zoom USA engineering loops. Caching patterns for system design and backend performance tuning.
Reported in Zoom USA engineering loops. Infrastructure design question covering L4/L7 balancers and health checks.
Reported in Zoom USA engineering loops. Behavioral STAR question assessing collaboration and conflict resolution.
Reported in Zoom USA engineering loops. Leadership behavioral question for senior and lead engineering tracks.
Reported in Zoom USA engineering loops. Managerial and lead-round question on coaching, feedback, and growth.
Reported in Zoom USA engineering loops. HR negotiation question requiring research and flexible framing.
Reported in Zoom USA engineering loops. API design question covering resources, HTTP semantics, and versioning.
Reported in Zoom USA engineering loops. Architecture trade-off question for mid-level backend and platform roles.
Reported in Zoom USA engineering loops. DevOps fundamentals for mid-level engineers discussing automation and quality gates.
Reported in Zoom USA engineering loops. Testing strategy question covering pyramid, mocks, and confidence vs speed.
Reported in Zoom USA engineering loops. Java-specific collections question on buckets, hashing, and resize behavior.
Reported in Zoom USA engineering loops. Core JavaScript concurrency model question for frontend and Node.js roles.
Reported in Zoom USA engineering loops. Python-specific question on threading limits and multiprocessing alternatives.
Reported in Zoom USA engineering loops. React hooks question on local state complexity and predictable updates.
Reported in Zoom USA engineering loops. Node.js architecture question on libuv, event loop phases, and worker threads.
Reported in Zoom USA engineering loops. SQL performance question covering B-trees, composite indexes, and trade-offs.
Reported in Zoom USA engineering loops. Distributed data question bridging SQL transactions and NoSQL eventual consistency.
Reported in Zoom USA engineering loops. Web fundamentals question essential for API and backend interviews.