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Python System Design Interview Questions

The document outlines 20 Python interview questions focused on system design and backend development. Each question is expected to elicit discussions on concepts, implementation details, performance, scalability, trade-offs, and real-world use cases. Topics include Python features, GIL, threading vs multiprocessing, asyncio, and designing scalable systems.

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Python System Design Interview Questions

The document outlines 20 Python interview questions focused on system design and backend development. Each question is expected to elicit discussions on concepts, implementation details, performance, scalability, trade-offs, and real-world use cases. Topics include Python features, GIL, threading vs multiprocessing, asyncio, and designing scalable systems.

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Python Interview Questions

System Design & Backend Focus (20 Questions)


Q1. What are Python's key features?
Expected discussion: concepts, implementation details, performance, scalability, trade-offs, and
real-world use cases.
Q2. Explain GIL and its impact.
Expected discussion: concepts, implementation details, performance, scalability, trade-offs, and
real-world use cases.
Q3. Threading vs Multiprocessing?
Expected discussion: concepts, implementation details, performance, scalability, trade-offs, and
real-world use cases.
Q4. How does asyncio work?
Expected discussion: concepts, implementation details, performance, scalability, trade-offs, and
real-world use cases.
Q5. Generators vs Iterators?
Expected discussion: concepts, implementation details, performance, scalability, trade-offs, and
real-world use cases.
Q6. Decorators with practical use?
Expected discussion: concepts, implementation details, performance, scalability, trade-offs, and
real-world use cases.
Q7. Context managers and with statement?
Expected discussion: concepts, implementation details, performance, scalability, trade-offs, and
real-world use cases.
Q8. Deep copy vs shallow copy?
Expected discussion: concepts, implementation details, performance, scalability, trade-offs, and
real-world use cases.
Q9. Mutable vs immutable objects?
Expected discussion: concepts, implementation details, performance, scalability, trade-offs, and
real-world use cases.
Q10. List vs Tuple vs Set vs Dictionary?
Expected discussion: concepts, implementation details, performance, scalability, trade-offs, and
real-world use cases.
Q11. How does Python memory management work?
Expected discussion: concepts, implementation details, performance, scalability, trade-offs, and
real-world use cases.
Q12. Explain *args and **kwargs.
Expected discussion: concepts, implementation details, performance, scalability, trade-offs, and
real-world use cases.
Q13. What are Python descriptors?
Expected discussion: concepts, implementation details, performance, scalability, trade-offs, and
real-world use cases.
Q14. How would you design a scalable REST API in FastAPI?
Expected discussion: concepts, implementation details, performance, scalability, trade-offs, and
real-world use cases.
Q15. How do you optimize Python performance?
Expected discussion: concepts, implementation details, performance, scalability, trade-offs, and
real-world use cases.
Q16. What are common caching strategies?
Expected discussion: concepts, implementation details, performance, scalability, trade-offs, and
real-world use cases.
Q17. How would you design a task queue using Celery?
Expected discussion: concepts, implementation details, performance, scalability, trade-offs, and
real-world use cases.
Q18. How do you structure large Python projects?
Expected discussion: concepts, implementation details, performance, scalability, trade-offs, and
real-world use cases.
Q19. How would you handle database connections efficiently?
Expected discussion: concepts, implementation details, performance, scalability, trade-offs, and
real-world use cases.
Q20. Design a file processing pipeline handling millions of records.
Expected discussion: concepts, implementation details, performance, scalability, trade-offs, and
real-world use cases.

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