Hi I'm a Staff SWE with 10 YOE at Amazon & a hot FAANGG adjacent company! I recently beat the tough 2024 job market, finishing 9 onsite, with 4 Staff offers including Meta, OpenAI and Airbnb. This 18 page guide is a self-service alternative to my coaching sessions. This guide summarizes the key insights I learned from the 50 phone screens and 14 onsite(s) I performed across 28 companies in the 2022 and 2024 job market.
After wrapping up my interviews, I started coaching 10+ engineers on how to improve their interview performance. After completing my first 10 sessions I found myself repeating similar advice over and over. To scale up my ability to coach others, and get more out of my discovery coaching sessions, I decided to write up the common sets of advice as the first part of a 3 part handbook "Acing the Tech Interview [2024 edition]". This first part focuses on how to build an effective interview plan with tips around: writing an effective resume, passing the coding round and quality resources for the system design round.
I hope that you find this guide helpful, if you find my product helpful, please leave a review and I'll consider working on Parts 2 and 3 covering coding and system design in more depth.
If you're looking for more personalized advice and tips on how to beat the System Design round, I'm available for mocks interviews at https://zcal.co/gjoope and am working to migrate my coaching platform directly to staffgg.com.
