Baseten system design interview

Round 4 of 5 · 2 questions reported

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Length
60 min
Format
Design discussion
They grade
Model serving, latency and GPU scaling
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Reported prompts: serving an LLM under bursty traffic, tracking down a p99 latency spike.

Questions Baseten asks in this round 2

  • Design a logging serviceSystem designIngest logs from every service at terabytes per day, make them searchable within seconds, and keep them cheaply for months.
    Last asked Aug 2026