Design a recommendation system
Recommend useful content while balancing relevance, freshness, and exploration.
ML system design interviews go beyond the model. These rounds ask you to design recommendation systems, feature stores, distributed training platforms, low-latency model serving, real-time fraud scoring and retrieval-augmented generation.
Practice the parts interviewers probe: training and serving skew, feature freshness, offline and online evaluation, latency budgets, and how the system degrades when a model or data source fails.
Recommend useful content while balancing relevance, freshness, and exploration.
Serve consistent ML features for both training jobs and online predictions.
Schedule reproducible training jobs across shared compute and data.
Deploy models safely and handle variable inference traffic.
Answer questions from a changing document collection with traceable sources.
Score transactions in milliseconds and route uncertain cases for review.
Notice when a production model becomes slow, biased, or less useful.