Cracking the Behavioural Interview
Engineers obsess over the coding and system design rounds and then wing the…
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A Worked Example & Your Prep Plan
You now have the whole toolkit: the signals interviewers score, the STAR…
Building Your Story Bank
There are hundreds of possible behavioural questions and you cannot prepare an…
Mistakes That Sink You
In the technical rounds you fail on what you don’t know. In the behavioural…
The STAR Method
In the last lesson we saw that a behavioural interviewer is collecting evidence…
What Behavioural Interviews Really Test
Most engineers prepare for the coding and system design rounds for weeks and…
How to Prepare
You can read every lesson in this course and still stumble in the room if you…
Cracking the System Design Interview
System design interviews are the most feared round in senior engineering…
Mock Interview Walkthrough
Reading about system design is one thing. Performing under interview pressure is…
Mistakes That Kill Your Interview
I’ve seen hundreds of system design interviews from both sides of the table. The…
The Framework — How to Structure Your Answer
In the previous lesson, we covered what interviewers actually evaluate. Now we…
What Interviewers Actually Look For
Most candidates walk into a system design interview thinking they need to…
System Design Interview Checklist
System design interviews are not trivia tests. The interviewer is not checking…
Designing a Notification System
Notification systems look simple on the surface. Something happens, you tell the…
Designing a News Feed (Facebook/Twitter)
Every social platform has a feed. Facebook’s News Feed, Twitter’s Timeline…
Designing a URL Shortener
The URL shortener is the “Hello World” of system design interviews. It seems…
How to Approach Any System Design Problem
Most engineers fail system design interviews not because they lack knowledge…