AI System Design Interviewer — Now in Early Access

System design,
under real pressure.

An AI interviewer that watches you draw and listens to you think. Real-time follow-ups. Seniority-calibrated questions. Honest feedback in seconds.

See how it works ↓
DesignLoop — Interview Session
AI

You've designed the write path. Let's stress-test it — at 50,000 writes per second, your single Kafka topic becomes a bottleneck. |

Candidate is drawing on the whiteboard…

YOU
ClientAPI GWKafka[P0..P7]Consumer GroupDB
5
seniority levels
<30s
to first question
5
score dimensions
~$3
per 1-hr session

How It Works

Three steps to a better interview

01

Choose your problem

Pick a classic — URL shortener, ride-sharing backend, distributed cache, or bring your own. Set your target seniority level.

02

Design live

Speak your approach. Draw on the whiteboard. The AI listens, watches, and intervenes with targeted follow-ups when you go quiet.

03

Get your scorecard

End the session and receive a full evaluation with scores, strengths, concrete improvements, and a seniority verdict in seconds.

Sample questions by level

L3Junior

"Walk me through what a load balancer does before we scale this."

L4Mid-Level

"You've mentioned sharding. What's your strategy for hot partitions?"

L5Senior

"At 10M writes/day, your single Postgres node is a problem. How do you migrate with zero downtime?"

StaffStaff

"Other teams depend on this API. How do you version it while rolling out the new schema?"

PrincipalPrincipal

"The board wants 5-nines. Walk me through your runbook if the primary region fails during peak."

Why DesignLoop

Built for how real interviews work

Not a chatbot. Not a quiz. A full simulation — voice, whiteboard, follow-ups — that behaves like the interviewer you dread.

Live whiteboard interpretation

Draw your architecture in Excalidraw. The AI watches in real-time and incorporates your diagram into every follow-up question — just like a real interviewer who's actually looking at your drawing.

Adaptive to your seniority

L3 engineers get scaffolded through the basics. Staff and Principal candidates face API contract challenges, cascading failure scenarios, and cross-org tradeoff decisions. The bar adjusts automatically.

Speaks back to you

AI responses are delivered as natural speech via text-to-speech. No reading walls of text. Hear the follow-up, think, draw, answer — the same rhythm as a real 60-minute loop.

Scored across 5 dimensions

After every session, get a detailed breakdown: Scalability, System Design, Communication, Trade-off Reasoning, and an honest Seniority Assessment. With specific examples from your session.

Post-Session Feedback

Know exactly where you stand

Overall Score

7.8/10
Performing at L5
Scalability8.2
System Design7.5
Communication8
Trade-off Reasoning7.4

Strengths

  • Proactively identified hotspot risk in write path
  • Clear explanation of consistent hashing rationale

Improve

  • Didn't address cross-region replication lag
  • No rollback strategy discussed for schema migration

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