On: Ask HN: How to study for system design that doesn't include front end/back end?

[deadbabe]

When you get a question like this, you just reduce everything down to database design.

Most systems are just wrappers around a database. You can tell because if you take away the database the system does nothing useful.

Financial products are exclusively priced in databases.

[MrDarcy → deadbabe]

I did this in an interview once, failed miserably and got the feedback, “we don’t care about the database.”

I personally feel you aren’t wrong but you also aren’t aligned with what they’re looking for, like I wasn’t when I failed this interview.

[deadbabe → MrDarcy]

You dodged a bullet.