Design a video recommendation system

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This question evaluates competency in building scalable, low-latency personalized recommendation systems, covering candidate generation and ranking, feature store and training-data design, online serving and caching, evaluation and A/B testing, and handling feedback loops, bias, cold-starts, and safety constraints.

Design a video recommendation system

Company: Snapchat

Role: Machine Learning Engineer

Category: ML System Design

Difficulty: medium

Interview Round: Onsite

Overview: This question evaluates competency in building scalable, low-latency personalized recommendation systems, covering candidate generation and ranking, feature store and training-data design, online serving and caching, evaluation and A/B testing, and handling feedback loops, bias, cold-starts, and safety constraints.

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Feb 12, 2026
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