Focusing on making you better at System Design and Software Engineering Interviews
Joined May 2026
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AI coding tools make good engineers faster and bad engineers faster too. One of those is considerably more dangerous.
Many senior engineers fail the behavioral round without ever realising it.
You answer the questions. You give decent examples. You walk out feeling fine.
Then you get the rejection email.
Here's what's actually going wrong and what to do about it.
You need to show you push back when you have conviction. AND that you update your position when someone gives you a better argument.
Always deferring = no backbone. Always pushing back = difficult to work with. They're looking for the balance.
I wrote a full breakdown with everything you need:
- The 6 questions you will always get
- How to signal the right seniority level
- Full worked examples in STAR format
- A complete interviewer checklist
- A prep exercise that actually works
seniorinterviewguide.com/
I created this account to start posting tips for the senior and staff software interview.
I originally posted my tips on reddit and got several hundred upvotes.
If you're interested in getting better at the interview process itself 📣like and follow! 📣
Your biggest problem isn't that you're bad at system design. Your biggest problem is that you don't know the system design interview. It's a completely different skill.
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