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- SENIOR BEHAVIORAL INTERVIEW PREP : Working with Limited Information and Making Wrong Decisions. And the lessons learned.
- Data Engineering Interview Insights: Key Skills & Challenges
- INTERVIEWING – System Design – What Does an Evaluation Resemble?
- BEHAVIORAL – A Junior Level Story : Server Diff Testing
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“The best leaders anticipate future scenarios.” – a senior staff engineer A Primer Alright, let me talk about one of the most exciting scenarios I ran into at work. I was amazed at the the foresight and the forwards-thinking my staff engineer demonstrated in a single 30-minute meeting. He recognized how to avoid the meta-stable…
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Everyone … and I mean everyone … is looking for different things. This is a really good question! What am I looking for? In fact, what are most of us in our profession looking for? Are we looking for the next 10-x rockstar engineer? Are we looking for someone who knows how to do things…
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Less Thinking, More Doing! – Your mid-western American, middle-aged dad’s advice Tell Me Your Story Alrighty then, let’s talk about one of the harder skills that I struggled to learn to master : Analysis Paralysis. How to make decisions in an organization when faced with multiple paths. Back at Capital One, I led the delivery…
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A primer! No matter which company you go to – Big Tech, Start-ups, Insurance Tech – you can expect to run into the issue of needing to hold discussions with your engineering team on how to best execute testing for your applications. In the world of a single developer working in their own machine, testing…
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Online resources How I prepped System Design Interviewing? I’ve been asked this by a good number of peers, including mid-level ( L4 ) and senior ( L5 ) peers who work in name-renowned companies like Google and AirBnB. And I’ll definitely admit the truth ; preparing for a system design interview is harder than an…
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Speak less, and listen more. Being a senior engineer across companies has been both an amazing experience and an arduous experience. I’ve gotten more used to the requirements, roles, and responsibilities of the position, but I still notice gaps and places where I can upskill more. Alright, let’s dig and dive in! My Personal Story…
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“It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside the frame” Communicating your strengths and your weaknesses to anyone – especially in an interview setting – is difficult ( for the majority of us, some of us find this easier ). But how do I know what I am good at versus what…
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Sometimes you gotta write fake data – or make up things that are close to real – in order to get things working. Fake it till you make it! Replay the scenario! What happens! Junior TDP engineer, Lolo, needs to write up unit tests and integration/end-to-end tests on a feature release, and in order to…
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Diagrams, Diagrams, Diagrams! Get me the diagrams!!! – A wise Principal Associate at a company I worked for in the past Let’s play out the scenario A junior engineer, Luis, is eager to present an incredibly technical topic on an up-and-coming multi-quarter project to her senior management and leadership. But before he can do so,…
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A Primer Freshly-minted, awe-inspired, recently matriculated from his undergraduate college, Alejandro, enters the workforce; he’s stunned at the level of complexity that he notices in the systems and infrastructure undergirding big tech. Inspired by a sense of interest, curiosity, and his volition, he spends some time diving deep into common system patterns and notices a…
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