Question

Atlassian| Interview experiences | Principal Software Engineer | Set-16

Answer 1

A consumer can schedule a request to https://myservice.com/api/items/_delete to be executed on Sunday at 1am. On Sunday at 1am the scheduling system must execute the HTTP request.

Requirements

The system must:

Provide an interface for scheduling HTTP requests at a specified time.
Execute an HTTP request at a specified time.
Initial release expects 10 scheduling requests per minute.
FR -

Provide an interface for scheduling HTTP requests at a specified time.
Execute an HTTP request at a specified time.
Initial release expects 10 scheduling requests per minute.
NFR
Scalling, availability, reliable - Only discussion

There are many follow up questions, few are below which I remember.

How the back-end will interact with Front-end (GUI), json request & response body
How will you handle different timezones?
How users will know the GUI timezone and what would be the timezone in the backend system.
How will you handle if the system crash and restart to avoid duplicate requests.
My note : I was able to explain the system design approach and answered all follow up questions but I realized it didn't meet the interviewer's expectation or approach he was looking for.
Location - US Remote
Level - P5