So how do you learn “system design” - infrastructure, proper data storage for the problem domain, balancing the trade offs between costs, RPO and RTO, security, caching, sharding to handle scale, scaling, disaster recovery or the stereotypical “how would you design Twitter” System Design tech interview.

Coding has little to do with handling ambiguity.

While I have never been through a BigTech coding interview, I have been through (and passed) a BigTech system design interview, it has little to do with coding.

Designing (and redesigning) systems for large organizations is my $DayJob where I have to be able to explain those concepts.