Platform and Product Scaling Questions
Addresses the product and platform minded aspects of scaling systems, including platform architecture, developer and ecosystem considerations, network effects, API and extensibility design, and how scaling decisions affect product velocity and business strategy. Topics include designing platforms for multi tenant growth, routing platform responsibilities between core services and extensions, balancing platform investments with feature velocity, and considering downstream developer experience and ecosystem effects when making scalability decisions.
HardSystem Design
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For a global SaaS product, decide on consistency models (strong consistency, eventual consistency, or configurable per operation) and explain product UX implications of each choice. Provide two examples of user-visible behaviors under eventual consistency and how you'd communicate them in-product.
HardSystem Design
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You plan to open an internal platform to external partners, but must ensure security and regulatory compliance. Create a phased plan for externalization that covers gating criteria, security reviews, partner onboarding checks, and how you'd track compliance across partners.
HardTechnical
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A critical product team asks you to pause a major platform refactor because it delays a high-revenue feature. As a Senior PM, describe your decision process: stakeholders you consult, metrics you request, short-term mitigations, and how you'd balance technical debt vs immediate revenue.
MediumTechnical
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You are asked to design a monitoring dashboard for platform health that non-technical execs can read. Select 8 key metrics (technical and business-facing), explain why each matters, and suggest simple visualizations or red/amber/green thresholds to show health at a glance.
MediumSystem Design
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Design an access-control model for a multi-tenant platform supporting both company admins and delegated app-level roles. Describe whether you'd choose RBAC, ABAC, or a hybrid, how permission inheritance should work across tenant boundaries, and how you would present this model in product UI to reduce misconfiguration risks.
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