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Be prepared for an advanced system design discussion. Expect to lead the conversation around event-driven architecture, queueing choices, fault tolerance, retries, idempotency, backpressure, ordering guarantees, observability, and trade-offs between specific technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, Pub/Sub, or similar services. You should be able to justify why you would choose one approach over another.
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Engineering Manager

Interviewed at monday.com

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3 May 2026

Be prepared for an advanced system design discussion. Expect to lead the conversation around event-driven architecture, queueing choices, fault tolerance, retries, idempotency, backpressure, ordering guarantees, observability, and trade-offs between specific technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, Pub/Sub, or similar services. You should be able to justify why you would choose one approach over another.

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