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Design a Social Feed

Last updated: Jul 14, 2026

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Design a personalized social feed that balances fresh and ranked content while supporting posts, follows, deletions, privacy, and stable pagination. The discussion covers hybrid fanout, celebrity accounts, candidate generation, ranking, hydration, and read-heavy scaling trade-offs.

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  • Mercor
  • System Design
  • Machine Learning Engineer

Design a Social Feed

Company: Mercor

Role: Machine Learning Engineer

Category: System Design

Difficulty: easy

Interview Round: Technical Screen

Quick Answer: Design a personalized social feed that balances fresh and ranked content while supporting posts, follows, deletions, privacy, and stable pagination. The discussion covers hybrid fanout, celebrity accounts, candidate generation, ranking, hydration, and read-heavy scaling trade-offs.

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May 30, 2026, 12:00 AM
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