#job scheduling

5 job scheduling interview questions, asked at CoreWeave, Cursor, Google and 2 more companies. Last asked Aug 2026.

Design a power plant telemetry and analysis platformSystem designPlant operators watch telemetry from generating units and run analysis jobs over a chosen time range to investigate anomalies. Design the platform: ingesting and serving recent…
Last asked Aug 2026
Design a durable cron job schedulerSystem designDesign a service that runs recurring jobs on cron-style schedules and does not lose them when machines fail. Cover how schedules are stored and turned into the next run time, how…
Last asked Apr 2026
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Design batched reboots across a machine fleetSystem designDesign a system that reboots a large set of machines in batches rather than all at once. Cover how batches are chosen and sized, how you confirm each machine came back healthy…
Last asked Feb 2026
Design a task queue that splits large jobs into subtasksSystem designYou already have a durable scheduler for small independent jobs. Some jobs are much bigger: they run from seconds to hours and can fan out into up to 100,000 subtasks. Extend the…
Last asked Nov 2025
Design a distributed task scheduler with dependenciesSystem designDesign a system that runs jobs made of tasks with dependencies between them, including long-running tasks. Cover how jobs and their dependency graphs are stored, how ready tasks…
Last asked Sep 2025