Interviewing at AI Tooling Companies: Cursor, Windsurf, Continue
3 min read The AI coding tools market in 2026 is a live category. Cursor, Windsurf (formerly Codeium), Continue, Sourcegraph Cody, and others […] Read article
AI-Era Interviewing
Returnship & Late-Career
Returning to Tech After Caring for an Aging Parent
3 min read Caregiving for an aging parent is one of the most common and least-discussed reasons engineers leave tech for a year Read article
Returnship & Late-Career
The Open-Source Comeback: Re-Entering Tech via OSS Contributions
3 min read For engineers returning after a multi-year gap, open-source contribution is one of the highest-leverage strategies for re-entry. Done well, it Read article
Returnship & Late-Career
Late-Career Founders: When to Build a Startup After 50
3 min read The “late-career founder” is more common than tech mythology suggests. Research from Pierre Azoulay and the Census Bureau put the Read article
Returnship & Late-Career
Returning to Tech with a Disability or Chronic Condition
3 min read Engineers who return to tech after managing a disability or chronic illness face a different set of considerations than other Read article
Engineering Manager
The Annual Plan: Building a Multi-Quarter Engineering Roadmap
3 min read The annual plan is one of the highest-leverage artifacts an engineering manager produces. Done well, it sets expectations, surfaces dependencies, Read article
Engineering Manager
EM and AI: How LLMs Change Engineering Management in 2026
3 min read The engineering manager role in 2026 is being reshaped by LLM-augmented engineering in a way no previous wave of tooling Read article
Engineering Manager
Engineering Manager Burnout: Signs, Causes, and Recovery
4 min read Engineering managers burn out at rates not well captured in industry surveys. The role lacks the tangible-output signals that ICs Read article
Engineering Manager
EM and Tech Debt: Negotiating with Product Without Losing the Team
3 min read “Why can’t we ship faster?” is a question most engineering managers hear weekly. The honest answer is usually some combination Read article
Mobile System Design
Design a Mobile Camera App: HDR, Burst, and On-Device Editing
3 min read “Design a camera app” is a senior-level mobile-system-design question that probes whether you understand the capture pipeline, on-device ML for Read article
Mobile System Design
Design a Mobile Food Delivery App: DoorDash and Uber Eats
3 min read “Design a food-delivery app” is the consumer-side mobile-system-design counterpart to the courier-side question. The interviewer wants to see how you Read article
Mobile System Design
Design Mobile Family Sharing: Locations, Subscriptions, Screen Time
3 min read “Design Family Sharing” is a multi-account mobile-system-design question — the interviewer is checking whether you understand identity and authorization across Read article
Mobile System Design
Design a Mobile Crypto Wallet: Keys, Signing, and Recovery
3 min read “Design a mobile crypto wallet” is a security-heavy mobile-system-design question. The interviewer is testing whether you understand the difference between Read article
Frontend Engineering
Build a Resizable Panels Layout: VS Code and Linear Style
3 min read “Build a resizable panels layout” is the layout cousin of the Build-a-modal question. VS Code, Linear, and Slack all use Read article
Frontend Engineering
Build a Rich Text Editor: Lexical, Tiptap, and ProseMirror
3 min read “Build a rich text editor” is one of the hardest senior-frontend interview prompts. The naive solution — a contenteditable div Read article