Enterprise system design interview questions
Designs that run inside a customer’s environment: a walking skeleton first, then identity, trust boundaries, data movement and rollback.
- Design a bulk import service that validates customer spreadsheets and explains every rejected row.
- Design how your product authenticates a large customer’s employees through their identity provider and removes access the day someone leaves.
- Design prompt versioning and rollback for a system with dozens of prompts used across several customers.
- Design a data platform that unifies a retailer’s point-of-sale, e-commerce, loyalty and supplier feeds into one customer and product view.
- Design a retrieval assistant over a state court system’s procedure manuals, deployed inside the court’s own cloud tenancy, with no case records leaving it.
- Design an evaluation harness that runs before every change to a customer-facing support agent.