Cardiff University interview questions

Pleasant, relaxed, efficient. Well organised and accommodating. Responded promptly after process, was not left hanging around for days or weeks after the interview wondering if I had been successful or not.

Relation diagram System Design / Architecture Staff engineers are expected to design large-scale systems, so expect high-level design, trade-offs, and leadership in decisions. Sample Questions: Design a globally distributed caching system (like Redis or Memcached at scale). How do you handle consistency and partition tolerance? Architect a real-time collaborative document editor (like Google Docs). Discuss synchronization, conflict resolution, and scaling.