Lambda interview process and questions

A recruiter call that doubles as a technical vocabulary screen on infrastructure, then two or three technical rounds (hiring manager, a team member), and possibly the CEO. We have 4 Lambda interview questions across its 3 rounds, the newest asked Sep 26, 2026; all of them are system design.

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  Design a GPU scheduling platformSystem designLockedDesign a platform that shares a large GPU cluster among research and production teams. Teams submit training jobs (from a single GPU to thousands, running for days) and inference…

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  Design a high-throughput object store for ML datasets and checkpointsSystem designLockedA GPU cloud needs storage for machine learning. Datasets hold millions of small files and large immutable shards, and thousands of GPUs read the same shards at the same time when…

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  Design a Kubernetes control plane for GPU workloads with topology and health-aware drainingSystem designLockedCustomers run distributed training and inference on Kubernetes clusters of GPU machines. Design the control plane that makes Kubernetes understand GPUs well: which GPUs and GPU…

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  Design an LLM inference serving platformSystem designLockedDesign the system that serves several large models to many customers with low latency and high GPU utilization.

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