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Interview Playbooks

High-signal, practitioner-written guides to passing modern engineering interviews. No fluff, just what actually works.

Software Engineering Interview Prep — The Complete Playbook for 2026
The master guide to SWE interviews — covering DSA, system design, behavioral, and the new AI/ML rounds that are showing up everywhere. Start here.
System Design Prep — A Last-Week Playbook
You just got a system design round scheduled for next week. Here's the exact 7-day playbook I'd follow.
Low Level Design Prep — A 7-Day Roadmap
Got an LLD round scheduled? Here's the exact 7-day playbook to master design patterns and SOLID principles.
SDE-2 Interview Prep — The Complete Playbook
Master High-Level Design, Low-Level Design, Data Structures, and Behavioral rounds to land offers from top tech companies.
Behavioral Answers That Actually Land Offers
The 10 questions you'll definitely get, with answer frameworks using the STAR-L method.
AI & Machine Learning Engineering Guide
Master LLM architecture, RAG, vector databases, and evaluation metrics for the 2026 interview landscape.
🤖 Agentic AI Engineering — The 2026 Interview Playbook
The fastest-growing interview topic. Covers agent frameworks, tool-calling, evaluation, and system design for autonomous AI systems.
Agent Framework Comparison
LangGraph vs. CrewAI vs. AutoGen vs. custom — when to use each and the trade-offs interviewers want to hear.
Tool-Calling & Function Schema
JSON schema design, error handling, multi-step tool chains, and side effects in agentic systems.
Agent Evaluation Questions
Trajectory evaluation, step-level accuracy, cost-per-task metrics, and LLM-as-a-Judge patterns.
Agentic System Design Mock
Full 45-minute walkthrough: "Design an autonomous customer support agent" with weak vs. strong answers.