X (Twitter) Interview Questions and Guide

Massive fanout architecture, low-latency timeline generation, multi-tier caching (Redis/Memcached), and high-throughput event streaming with Kafka.

The X (Twitter) interview loop

  1. Recruiter screen
  2. Technical phone screen (coding & algorithms)
  3. Onsite: 2 coding rounds, 1 high-throughput distributed systems design, 1 behavioral

X (Twitter) interview questions