Get ready to showcase your expertise in API design with an intensive, hands-on interview experience focused on the CamelCamelCamel (C3) API. In this dynamic session, you'll be challenged to devise a scalable and reliable API that tracks Amazon product prices, supporting a range of functionalities from product searches and price history retrieval to creating notifications for price drops. Designed to simulate real-world scenarios, this interview will push your problem-solving skills and attention to detail to their limits through a structured yet conversational approach over 40-45 minutes.

By delving into this interview, you'll practice and refine:

• Crafting functional and non-functional requirements for robust API design.
• Devising and justifying necessary services and their interactions within the system.
• Creating endpoint architecture with RESTful methods, ensuring optimal performance and real-time data accuracy.
• Utilizing tools to illustrate your architectural decisions, engaging in illustrative explanations through drawings.
• Handling complex scenarios like idempotency, versioning, and performance optimization with thoughtful, adaptive solutions.

Upon completing this thorough interview, you'll be better equipped to tackle real-world API design challenges, showcasing an advanced understanding of creating efficient, scalable, and user-centric APIs.