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1. Problem Statement
Design an online shopping system: customers browse a catalog, add items to a cart, and check out to create an order that is paid for and shipped. Focus on the domain model — products, SKUs and inventory, cart, order with line-item prices, checkout, payment, and shipment. Start by clarifying scope and the core objects.
2. Live Coding Format
Work in the provided coding workspace while explaining your decisions to the live interviewer. Validation may use inline tests, examples, comments, or a verbal walkthrough.
3. Key Focus Areas
- 1Product/SKU/inventory modeling
- 2Cart and cart-item quantity invariants
- 3Order lines with snapshotted prices and order state transitions
- 4Idempotent checkout and inventory reserve/commit/release
- 5Payment gateway boundary and shipment lifecycle
4. What Strong Candidates Should Demonstrate
- Separate Product, SKU, Cart, Order, and Shipment responsibilities cleanly.
- Snapshot order-line prices so placed orders are immune to later catalog changes.
- Model inventory reserve/commit/release to prevent overselling.
- Make checkout idempotent at the application boundary and treat payment as an interface.
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