Design an Online Coding Contest Platform
Company: Whatnot
Role: Software Engineer
Category: System Design
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Technical Screen
Quick Answer: This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design a scalable, secure System Design for an online coding contest platform with emphasis on safely executing untrusted third-party code, testing competencies in distributed systems, sandboxing and isolation, job scheduling, and data modeling for submissions, contests, and leaderboards.