Interview Prep

Whiteboard vs Collaborative Editor: How the Coding Surface Changes Interview Dynamics The medium where you write code in an interview […]

Failure Stories: How to Talk About a Failure in Behavioral Interviews “Tell me about a time you failed.” This question

Behavioral Interview at Startup vs FAANG: Radically Different Calibrations The behavioral interview at a 50-person startup and the behavioral interview

Hiring Manager Screen vs Technical Screen: Different Rounds, Different Prep Most candidates conflate the hiring manager screen with the technical

Internal Transfer Interviews: Different from External Hiring Internal transfers — moving from one team to another within the same company

Returnship Programs at Major Tech Companies: How to Re-Enter After a Career Break Returnships — paid, structured programs designed for

Promotion-Ready Packets and Promo Docs at FAANG Promotions at FAANG and engineering-mature companies aren’t earned through tenure; they’re earned through

How to Recover from a Bombed Round Mid-Loop You’re 30 minutes into your second round of an onsite. The system

Interview Prep Timeline by Experience Level: New Grad, Mid, Senior, Staff+ How long to prepare for tech interviews depends substantially

Identifying Red Flags During the Interview Process Interviews are bidirectional. While the company evaluates you, you’re evaluating them. The interview

Talking Through Code While Typing: The Underrated Interview Skill The most common cause of “the candidate solved it but I’m

LeetCode Patterns by Frequency: Top 75, Blind 75, Neetcode 150 Compared LeetCode has 3,000+ problems. You can’t solve them all,

“Anti-LeetCode” Interview Formats: Take-Home, Live Debug, Pair Programming, Trial Days LeetCode-style coding rounds dominate FAANG hiring, but a growing number

Interview Ghosting and Follow-Up Timing: When to Nudge, When to Walk Away You completed an onsite. Two weeks later, no

Coding Interview Language Choice: Python vs C++ vs Java vs Go in 2026 The first question candidates ask before coding