Mastering the System Design Interview (Udemy.com)
Insider tips for your system design interview from a former Amazon hiring manager – plus 6 mock interviews for practice!
Created by: Sundog Education by Frank Kane
Last updated July 2026
What you will learn
- Practice working through real-world system design interview questions
- Apply horizontal scaling to transactions, data storage, analytics, and databases
- Choose appropriate algorithms and data structures for system designs
- Structure your interview responses to ensure the best outcomes
- Approach system design problems from the right angles, and with the right questions.
- Address the soft skills your interviewer is secretly evaluating you on
Course Description
Ace your next systems design interview! Get tips, tricks, and practice interviews with a former hiring manager from Amazon, who interviewed thousands of software engineers and hired hundreds. Frank Kane will share the secrets of what your interviewer is looking for and the technologies you’re expected to know. Practice makes perfect, so you’ll also get six mock system design interviews with real-world interview questions from the biggest tech employers.
A technical interview loop is a demanding process, and the system design part is often the most challenging. This course gets you prepared, and maximizes your odds of landing a new job that could change your life.
Over 5 hours of on-demand video content will cover what you need to know before starting your next interview:
Techniques for scaling distributed systems and service fleets
Designing Generative AI Systems with Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Agentic AI
Database technologies and “NoSQL” solutions
Use of caching to improve scalability and performance
Designing for resiliency and handling failures
Distributed storage solutions
A review of algorithms and data structures
Processing big data with Apache Spark
An overview of cloud computing resources
Interview strategies for structuring your system design interview
Six full mock interviews with real-world system design interview questions
General tips and tricks for a successful technical interview
We'll cover topics in high-level design and low-level design, software architecture, and more.
This course is for experienced software engineers who need some extra preparation prior to a challenging system design interview. Enroll now, and you’ll have every advantage going into your next tech interview!
Don't take our word for it - check out these notes sent to us by learners in this course:
"Wanted to thank you immensely for your Udemy course on System Design. Was really key in helping me switch teams internally. I’ve recommended it to numerous people since!"
"I just wanted to thank you for your System design course, because of that course I was able to clear my 6 rounds of system design interviews at Google and got the job."
"Interview prep is even more challenging without proper guidance. This course was a real saver because I was asked every concept that the course discussed. The mock interview was helpful enough to practice your learnings for real world problems. I was able to ace my system design portion of interview and got my offer at Amazon.
As a non-CS major student, I struggled to find good resources. The instructor was actually from Amazon and had real interview questions. He focuses on skills that really matter on the interview rather than hacky tricks. You will lose nothing on this course because you will grow a lot regardless of the interview result. And... this course will remain as a strong guide what to focus on more."
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
15,450 Reviews
Sundog Education by Frank Kane
Sundog Education's mission is to make highly valuable career skills in data engineering, data science, generative AI, AWS, and machine learning accessible to everyone in the world. Our consortium of expert instructors shares our knowledge in these emerging fields with you, at prices anyone can afford.
As a senior manager at Amazon during its early years, Frank Kane led large technical teams, managed multi-year projects, and served as a "bar-raiser" - interviewing thousands and hiring hundreds across the company.
Frank holds 26 issued patents in machine learning and personalization. After 9 years at Amazon and IMDb, he founded Sundog Education and has since taught over 1.1 million people in AI, ML, AWS, system design, and tech leadership. Frank has been teaching full-time for over 10 years - but is always building projects on the side with the latest emerging technologies, to better explain them to you!
Our teaching style is to simplify complex concepts - once you cut through all the notation and jargon, most of AI and machine learning is pretty easy to understand. We make these advanced topics accessible to anyone with a modest technical background, always using plain English and examples to drive it home. We make learning easy, hands-on, and fun.
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Reviews
By Yuvraj Sidhu on 8/22/2026
Frank is highly charismatic and engaging. His clear speech, excellent voice modulation, and steady pace make the course easy to follow. Beyond his technical knowledge, he offers valuable practical insights that are equally important and helpful in interviews.
By Jeisson Andres Rubio Rodriguez on 7/24/2026
Fue util para mi, para tener un primer acercamiento y contexto sobre las entrevistas para big tech, desde luego se requiere investigación y practica para profundizar mas, pero es una buena guia par iniciar
By Aman Solanki on 7/11/2026
This course is basically covers system design strategies on very high level if you already have some background knowledge and just want to recap your knowledge then this course is good for you, but as beginner i would suggest to take more elaborative course. As myself i have very less knowledge about system design by completing this course, i feel now i have some more knowledge around key words, technologies which revolve around system design interview.
By Jerry Chan on 6/27/2026
This course has been absolutely amazing! It exceeded my expectations and is definitely worth every penny. The content is well-structured, easy to follow, and packed with practical knowledge. I highly recommend it to anyone preparing for system design interviews.
By Christopher T. Lee on 6/24/2026
Dry, but amazingly accurate. Overkill, honestly. Mastery of this can easily get you to pass all technical interviews. FAANG especially since this guy essentially is teaching you what FAANG wants from... I guess 2020ish. Still applicable.
By Kevin Alexis Valdez Zamora on 6/11/2026
I've always wondered what I could do or study to perform better at interviews. Despite reading books about software architecture and design patterns, I used to struggle to come up with ideas on how to combine these topics when interviewed. After completing the course I can tell that this is what I needed; it was great to see from someone with experience how to approach these scenarios and provide a solution while keeping clear communication with the interviewee (which is definitively not my strong suit). Great course! I'll check more content from you
By Namrata Kumari on 5/18/2026
This was overall a good point to start preparing for your system design interview. It gives the high level idea of what topics to touch and dive deep into. However, at the same time, it kind of sped past the mock interview solutions. I think these mock interview solutions could have been more detailed such that those who aren't already acquainted with these ideas can get a detailed idea on the solutions. After watching all the videos, I feel like I have to now find materials to read about the concepts and solutions in detail, which I would definitely do. So, I guess, this was what this course was meant to be. Good starter point for anyone prepping for interviews.
By Anna Klein on 5/12/2026
I'm currently learning for my first system design interview. Frank gives a great overview of the concepts and the mock interviews helped my to get a grasp of what I can expect an interview to be like. I will have to do more of a deep dive into some topics to be able to talk about them at length, but this is a great introductory course. And there are a lot of tips on the side!
By Yong Sung Kim on 3/26/2026
I liked the course because the mock interview debrief section was extremely helpful in comparing my own approach vs suggested approach. For example, I learnt that I tend to get overly focused on one detail thus failing to first cover the overall approach; a blind spot that I did not see before this course.
By Nabid Hasan on 3/9/2026
Fantastic course! Clear explanations, great visuals, and very practical content. I finally understand how to approach system design problems systematically. Definitely worth the investment!
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