--- title: Algorithms you should know before you take system design... description: System Design Interview books cover a range of important algorithms. I put together a list and explained why they are important. It’s very difficult to rank... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/algorithms-you-should-know-before-you-take-system-design-interviews-hausfehkz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Algorithms you should know before you take system design interviews | daily.dev og:description: System Design Interview books cover a range of important algorithms. I put together a list and explained why they are important. It’s very difficult to rank... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/algorithms-you-should-know-before-you-take-system-design-interviews-hausfehkz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/haUSfEhkZ.png og:image:alt: Algorithms you should know before you take system design interviews og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Algorithms you should know before you take system design interviews **[ByteByteGo](https://daily.dev/sources/bytebytego)** · 2 min read · 434 upvotes · 8 comments ## Summary System Design Interview books cover a range of important algorithms. I put together a list and explained why they are important. It’s very difficult to rank algorithms by importance objectively. understanding “how those algorithms are used in real-world systems’ is generally more important than the implementation details in a system design interview. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@phaeton** · 3 upvotes > ” Those algorithms are not only useful for interviews but good to understand for any software engineer. “ > > Be careful with generalizations like that. The collection is good and the article is nice, but imho a lot of engineers will never use those algos. **@robus** · 2 upvotes > Recently I have started following @ByteByteGo and I am taken by surprise with the kind of quality they churn out on regular basis. Absolutely Commendable efforts. The person who does a content strategy should get awarded raise. **@kuppuraj** · 1 upvotes > For a long time, I have been searching this. Thank you. **@sachin\_mounesh** · 1 upvotes > Nice collection!!!! Kudos for the effort of collecting them!. **@randyknight** · 0 upvotes > Thanks for compiling and sharing this list of useful content for system design interviews. 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Kudos for the effort of collecting them!.","datePublished":"2022-07-06T07:18:19.175Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/haUSfEhkZ#c-OZaLE-OlZ","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"sachin m","url":"https://daily.dev/sachin_mounesh","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/AOh14GgV-rMHaiImDmqpljFHGyVn3NeVLozv7DYmQAba=s100"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Thanks for compiling and sharing this list of useful content for system design interviews. You rock! ✨","datePublished":"2022-07-06T11:35:06.561Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/haUSfEhkZ#c-T3phovgfD","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Randy Knight","url":"https://daily.dev/randyknight","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto/v1658235878/avatars/DApntFe4RGyUoTfnJ4mfn"}}]} ```