Navigating technical interviews for Software Engineers

May 17, 2018

The complexity around giving a System Design interview

System design interviews assess your ability to discuss engineering tradeoffs while diagramming a system that powers an example application or feature of an application. The interview complements traditional coding interviews by…

Joel Kemp

Jul 30, 2017

Tips for interviewing at a large tech company

I wrote about what I enjoyed from interviewing at Spotify, and now I often get friendly emails from strangers asking for tips on how they should prepare for an upcoming Software Engineer interview. I wanted to share my thoughts more publicly — though…

I really enjoyed interviewing at Spotify

After a month of intense preparation and interviewing, Spotify was a breath of fresh air. I’d like to talk about the process of interviewing for an engineering role and why it was one of the better experiences.

Technical interviews: it’s not actually about the whiteboard

An algorithm for algorithmic technical interview questions

After solving dozens of practice questions, I started to notice a strategy emerge for how I solve technical interview questions. This framework isn’t guaranteed to get you the job; however, the perspective will hopefully help in…

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