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If we were building Instagram from scratch today how would you design the backend to handle the image load?

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2 answers published. Last candidate submission on Sep 12 2026, 1:00pm PDT. Interview question asked to Technical Program Managers and Software Engineers interviewing at Grammarly, Walmart, Qualys and other companies. Original question asked: If we were building Instagram from scratch today how would you design the backend to handle the image load?. Question last reported by a candidate interviewing at Lam Research for a Software Engineer interview on Aug 8 2026, 12:05pm PDT.