Glean system design interview

Round 6 of 7 · 3 questions reported

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Length
60 min
Format
Design discussion
They grade
Search systems at depth: indexing many workplace apps, permission-aware results, multi-tenancy, ranking

Questions Glean asks in this round 3

  • Design a work-together distance between two employeesML designDesign a distance d(u1, u2) between any two people in a company that measures how closely they work together: smaller means closer. Decide which signals to use (shared documents…
    Last asked Sep 2026
  • Design typeahead suggestionsSystem designSuggest completions as the user types into a search box, within tens of milliseconds, ranked by popularity and fresh with trending queries.
    Last asked Sep 2026
  • Design permission-aware enterprise searchAI systemDesign search across every app a company uses (Drive, Confluence, Slack, Jira, GitHub, email and more) from one search box, plus an assistant that answers from the results. Nobody…