Interview Resources
- This module’s 11_INTERVIEW_GUIDE.md —
59 questions spanning conceptual, scenario, architecture, optimization,
and maintenance/myths tiers, cross-referenced back to the relevant file.
- LeetCode Database section — practical SQL query-writing practice;
pair with this module’s indexing reasoning to explain why a query
you wrote would perform well at scale, not just that it returns the
correct result.
- “Explain the tradeoffs” framing — for any system-design or SQL
interview, practice stating the trade-off explicitly (read speed vs.
write cost, storage vs. query flexibility) rather than only naming the
index type — interviewers at this level are evaluating judgment, not
vocabulary recall.
- Use The Index, Luke — “Interview” style self-test — the site’s
worked examples double as strong interview prep since they’re framed
as diagnose-then-fix exercises, similar to this module’s Production
Debugging practice section.