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Gabriel Anhaia3d ago • 10 min read
Design Ticketmaster for a 3.5-Billion-Request Presale: Waiting Room, Seat Holds, Expiry
The Eras Tour presale hit 3.5B requests, 4x Ticketmaster's prior peak. Work the interview design: wa...
#systemdesign#redis#architecture#interview
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Gabriel AnhaiaOct 16, 2026 • 9 min read
Design GitHub Actions in 45 Minutes: Job Queue, Runners, Live Logs and the Cache
A 45-minute system design walkthrough of a CI service: capacity math, a leased job queue, ephemeral ...
#systemdesign#career#interview#devops
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Max Nyriev2d ago • 2 min read
I watched 438 people practice AI-assisted coding interviews. 93% of the time they accepted whatever the AI wrote.
Ten companies now run a coding interview where an AI assistant is part of the test. Canva went first...
#career#ai#interview#programming
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Martin17h ago • 10 min read
Python interview questions: the ones a backend round actually asks
Most Python interview lists are written for people learning the language. A backend round isn't that...
#python#interview#programming#backend
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Bestkaam BK2d ago • 4 min read
Preparing for Your First Software Developer Interview: What Actually Matters
Your first software developer interview can feel intimidating. You've spent months learning...
#beginners#career#interview#programming
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Martin3d ago • 7 min read
How to pass a software engineering technical interview
Most engineers who fail a technical interview could have done the job. That gap, between being able....
#discuss#programming#career#interview
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Assis Zang3d ago • 4 min read
The Removing Element Issue
Today we're going to discuss a classical tech interview problem: Inserting, Removing, and Retrieving...
#datastructures#algorithms#interview#csharp
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Land the Lab5d ago • 3 min read
OpenAI still asks you to design TinyURL. Mistral asks about mixture of experts.
Photo: Keawan A on Unsplash 60% of OpenAI's design questions are classic system design, like...
#systemdesign#ai#career#interview
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Haseeb Sagheer4d ago • 12 min read
Generative AI & LLM Interview Questions: 30 Questions With Model Answers
These 30 generative AI and LLM interview questions cover what freshers and junior engineers are...
#ai#llm#career#interview
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Liyander Rishwanth5d ago • 3 min read
Building an AI Interviewer That Teaches Instead of Just Evaluating
Most interview preparation tools focus on answering more questions. But I wanted to explore a...
#ai#career#interview#learning
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Caner Aksu1d ago • 3 min read
A Better Way to Answer JavaScript Interview Questions: Example, Boundary, Failure Mode
A Better Way to Answer JavaScript Interview Questions: Example, Boundary, Failure Mode A...
#javascript#career#interview#webdev
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Arpit Rath1d ago • 12 min read
Amazon SDE 1 Interview Experience
Finally, it’s time to write down my Amazon interview experience! Better late than never, right? 😅 ...
#career#interview#softwareengineering
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kirandeepjassal-crypto6d ago • 4 min read
SQL Server Interview Questions for Senior Developers in 2026 — Execution Plans, Indexing, Locking & Parameter Sniffing (Deep Answers)
Junior SQL interviews ask "what is an index." Senior interviews ask why the index you added is being...
#sql#database#interview#performance
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Land the Lab5d ago • 3 min read
The AI lab interview round that asks the most questions isn't in the onsite.
Photo: Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash 34% of reported questions at the top AI labs come from the...
#ai#career#interview#programming
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Chandan Giri1d ago • 6 min read
How to Hire a Forward Deployed Engineer: Beyond Coding Interviews
Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) occupy an unusual position in software engineering. They...
#career#ai#hiring#interview
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Simran Singh1d ago • 2 min read
Why I Practice Coding Interviews Out Loud
For a long time I prepared for coding interviews by solving problems silently. I could solve medium....
#career#interview#beginners#productivity
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0not017h ago • 3 min read
LeetCode 4006: imperative vs functional solution
Link to LeetCode 4006. Count Valid Prefixes problem. I this post I compare how Python, Java, and....
#leetcode#coding#interview#erlang
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MICHAEL-MAURICE5d ago • 6 min read
5 C# Bugs That Pass Code Review (and the Interview Questions Hiding in Them)
The senior .NET interview questions that catch people out usually aren't trivia. They're a small...
#dotnet#csharp#interview#career
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Land the Lab5d ago • 3 min read
Cursor sells AI coding, but its screens allow only autocomplete. OpenAI's allow none.
Photo: Joao on Unsplash OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Cursor and Perplexity keep AI out of every coding....
#ai#career#interview#programming
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Real Dev6d ago • 6 min read
I Added a Fourth Shard in Python and 75% of the Keys Moved
Why hash(key) % N falls apart when N changes, measured on 100,000 keys, and what a consistent hash r...
#systemdesign#python#distributedsystems#interview
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Timevolt6d ago • 4 min read
Level Up Your FAANG Interview: A 3‑Month Training Montage Inspired by Rocky
The Quest Begins (The “Why”) I still remember the first time I opened LeetCode and felt...
#interview#career#programming#softwareengineering
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Hamza Ibrahim2d ago • 4 min read
How to Practice Behavioral Interviews With AI: A Software Engineer's Guide (2026)
The fastest way to fail a behavioral interview is a vague story. "We migrated the service and it wen...
#career#interview#ai#programming
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Simran Singh4d ago • 3 min read
5 Interview Mistakes You Only Notice When You Review the Recap
Most of us prepare for interviews the same way: read a list of common questions, write a few answers...
#career#interview#productivity#beginners
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Real Dev6d ago • 4 min read
The Python Copy Bug That Looks Fine in Code Review
Here is a bug that is easy to ship. A function takes a dict of default settings and hands each new.....
#python#interview#beginners#programming
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