Amusement Park / Sharing System Product Design

Problem Overview

Design a sharing system for an amusement park application. The interviewer provides a Google Doc at the start containing a pre-drawn architecture diagram — no whiteboard or additional diagram drawing is required or expected. The architecture is deliberately simplified to three tiers: client → web server → database. The question…

• 6 candidate-reported follow-ups — the exact probes interviewers asked, with the trigger for each
• The rest of the problem statement — full requirements, constraints, and edge cases
• Approach and trade-offs — what passing candidates did, and the mistakes that sink people