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Design a distributed file system. Can't use any commercial blob storage like S3. Went very deep into specific distributed system & file system mechanisms. Seems like the interviewers were interested in how the fundamentals & principles of distributed systems are applied in real design.
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Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Databricks

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May 19, 2025

Design a distributed file system. Can't use any commercial blob storage like S3. Went very deep into specific distributed system & file system mechanisms. Seems like the interviewers were interested in how the fundamentals & principles of distributed systems are applied in real design.

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