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“Clarify the requirements” easy right.... Not if you're actually in an interview
Interviewer: “Design a URL shortener.”
Me: “Okay… what do I ask?”
I wrote about the part tutorials skip:
Trying to understand the reasoning instead of memorizing “use Redis/Kafka.”
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Interviewer: “Design a URL shortener.”
Me: “Okay… what do I ask?”
I wrote about the part tutorials skip:
Trying to understand the reasoning instead of memorizing “use Redis/Kafka.”
🔗 medium.com/@niyatinehal...
Everyone Says “Clarify the Requirements” in System Design. But How?
You all might have watched a lot of YouTube videos on system design and heard almost every one of them say:
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September 16, 2026 at 8:47 AM
“Clarify the requirements” easy right.... Not if you're actually in an interview
Interviewer: “Design a URL shortener.”
Me: “Okay… what do I ask?”
I wrote about the part tutorials skip:
Trying to understand the reasoning instead of memorizing “use Redis/Kafka.”
🔗 medium.com/@niyatinehal...
Interviewer: “Design a URL shortener.”
Me: “Okay… what do I ask?”
I wrote about the part tutorials skip:
Trying to understand the reasoning instead of memorizing “use Redis/Kafka.”
🔗 medium.com/@niyatinehal...