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System design hiring rubric

System Design Interview Rubric

Select the seniority you are hiring for and create a draft system-design assessment that your hiring team can review before inviting candidates.

Assessment templates

Use a structured system design interview rubric covering requirements, APIs, data, architecture, scale, reliability, and trade-offs, then create a real assessment draft.

SDE-2 rubric

Requirements, core architecture, APIs, data model, bottlenecks, and basic reliability.

Senior rubric

Scale estimates, partitioning, consistency, reliability, observability, and evolution.

Staff-level rubric

Ambiguity, multi-region architecture, migration, organizational constraints, and long-term trade-offs.

Related resources

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