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System-design questions are about the trade-offs you make when no answer is obviously right. Interviewers want to see scope, the bottleneck you pick, and the rejected designs you can articulate.

System design · Tradeoffs

Design an API for a third-party weather service that your app calls to display forecasts. How do you handle cases where the external API is slow or down? What do you show users?

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