Resources for IC6(Staff) Eng interview preparation

• Coding:
  • As usual, Leetcode is your best friend. Notice to not pay too much attention to hard questions. Focusing on medium is sufficient.
  • ^ time your coding. Companies like Meta especially ask to solve 2 medium questions in 40 minutes coding round.
• System design:
  • ByteByteGo: Alex Xu’s system design interview I & II are pretty good as a starting point. Even though those cases are a little bit facial, still worth reading if you haven’t: https://bytebytego.com/
  • DDIA: Make sure to read at least part II.
  • Mock interviews: mock system interviews with other (Sr+) engs.
  • GPT: interviews.io has a GPT bot to mock interviews. however it is not well tuned. but still good for daily practice
  • Blogs: tech companies have their own blog posts. Reading those posts also helps broad the vision.
• Project deep dive:
  • Mock interview with other eng, better with one who has manager background.
• Behaviors:
  • Amazon’s 16 LP. (yes, it grows to 16 principles)
  • https://a.co/d/9iOOLBv
• extended read:
  • https://a.co/d/7XPkESp
  • https://www.1point3acres.com/bbs/thread-1054990-1-1.html