Design an online coding contest platform

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This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems for real-time, event-driven workloads, covering competencies such as concurrency control, scoring and ranking logic, live updates, and sandboxed execution of untrusted code.

Design an online coding contest platform

Company: Meta

Role: Software Engineer

Category: System Design

Difficulty: medium

Interview Round: Onsite

Overview: This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems for real-time, event-driven workloads, covering competencies such as concurrency control, scoring and ranking logic, live updates, and sandboxed execution of untrusted code.

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Feb 7, 2026
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