Design a High-Frequency Job Scheduler
Company: ByteDance
Role: Software Engineer
Category: System Design
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Onsite
Overview: This question evaluates competency in distributed systems design, scheduling semantics (including high-frequency and recurring jobs), durable job storage and consistency, priority-based dispatching, retry and deduplication mechanisms, failure recovery, scalability of worker pools, and monitoring/operational safety.
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