Title:
Accolite - Senior Frontend Engineer (SDE 2) - System Design Round
Description:
Level: Mid–Senior (SDE 2)
Education: B.Tech in Computer Science
Years of Experience (YOE): 6
Questions Asked:
- System Design for Notion-like Note-Taking App
- Design the overall architecture of a collaborative note-taking web app like Notion.
- Discuss how data synchronization works between clients and servers.
- How would you handle offline editing and conflict resolution?
- What frontend state management approach would you choose and why?
- Tagging System for Jira
- Design API and data models for tagging issues and projects.
- How to scale this system for millions of tags and users?
- How would you compute and store daily trending tags efficiently?
- Rendering Optimization
- Discuss SSR (Server-Side Rendering) vs CSR (Client-Side Rendering).
- When to use each, and what trade-offs exist?
- What is hydration, and how can you optimize FCP (First Contentful Paint)?
- Code Question (Conceptual):
- Explain tree-shaking and lazy-loading in the context of React.
- When and how do you use feature flags for experimental UI changes?