Design a fitness tracking app
Company: Meta
Role: Software Engineer
Category: System Design
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Take-home Project
Design a fitness tracking application. Users can record workouts, browse their workout history, and view the route map for activities such as running or cycling. Discuss the core APIs, data model, storage design, geo-data handling, scalability, and privacy considerations.
Quick Answer: This question evaluates a candidate's competency in designing end-to-end backend architectures, specifying core APIs, modeling workout and geospatial route data, selecting storage and indexing strategies, and addressing scalability and privacy/security considerations.