Google DeepMind system design interview

Round 5 of 7 · 2 questions reported

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Length
60 min
Format
Design discussion
They grade
Tradeoffs you can justify, not a list of technologies
AI use
Not allowed or heavily restricted
Heads-up
Research engineers design distributed training and evaluation infrastructure instead of product systems.

Questions Google DeepMind asks in this round 2

About the Google DeepMind system design round

What does Google DeepMind ask in the system design round?

The most asked: Design fault-tolerant training for a frontier model on 16k accelerators and Evaluate a new LLM before launch.

How long is the Google DeepMind system design round?

About 60 minutes.

What is the Google DeepMind system design round like?

Design discussion. They grade: Tradeoffs you can justify, not a list of technologies.

Can you use AI in the Google DeepMind system design round?

Not allowed or heavily restricted.