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Design a 'People You May Know' (friend/connection recommendation) system.

PYMK is graph recommendation at billion-node scale. The interviewer is screening for one instinct: do you generate candidates from the social graph, or naively try to score all pairs? Here is the design that survives the follow-ups.

Updated Aug 2026 · Grounded in real Applied AI Engineer interview loops and written to a senior-engineer editorial bar.

PYMK is graph recommendation at billion-node scale. The interviewer is screening for one instinct: do you generate candidates from the social graph, or naively try to score all pairs? Here is the design that survives the follow-ups.

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