Design a Photo Management Service
Company: Robinhood
Role: Software Engineer
Category: System Design
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Onsite
Design a photo management system where users can upload photos, view them later, and organize them into albums. The system should support creating albums, adding or removing photos from albums, listing photos in an album, and viewing photo metadata. Discuss the API design, storage architecture, metadata modeling, scalability, reliability, and how the system should handle large numbers of users and photos.
Quick Answer: This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design scalable, reliable photo management systems, focusing on API design, storage architecture, metadata modeling, album management, and operational concerns for large numbers of users and photos.