The System Design Interview Runbook

This isn't a system design course. It's the runbook I built for myself after realizing that knowing concepts and performing under interview conditions are two completely different skills — and no course was teaching me the second one.

After enough rejections to genuinely doubt myself, I stopped collecting more theory and started studying the interview itself: the pacing, the framework, what each level is actually judged on, and what each company weighs differently even when they ask the same question. This runbook is that — curated, tested, and part of what got me through Microsoft's loop.

What's inside:

• A 4-step framework to run in every system design round, with minute-by-minute pacing
• Level calibration — what's actually expected at SDE2 vs Senior vs Staff+ (most guides pretend this doesn't matter — it does)
• Company playbooks — Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and domain-heavy rounds each grade differently
• 8 fully solved problems, run through the exact framework, with the deep-dive questions interviewers actually ask

Who it's for:

Anyone from 1 to 8+ years of experience preparing for system design interviews — whether you're prepping for the first time or you've been rejected more times than you want to admit.

Why it's not free:

It took real, deliberate effort to compress this — no filler, no theory you could get from a free YouTube video. First 10 buyers get it free with code SYS10