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Algorithms & data structures
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Architecture & scalability
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Backend Engineer — Authentication & Security
A security-focused technical interview for mid-level engineers at a digital bank — covering JWT, OAuth2, session management, and common vulnerability prevention.
Junior Node.js Backend Engineer
A foundational technical interview for junior Node.js engineers covering REST APIs, Express.js, async patterns, and basic error handling.
Junior Engineer — Behavioral Screening
A foundational behavioral interview for junior engineers. Covers how you work with others, handle feedback, approach problems you don't know the answer to, and communicate under pressure.
Backend Engineer — Database Design & Optimization
A mid-level technical interview focused on PostgreSQL, database design, indexing strategy, and Redis caching for high-throughput payment systems.
Senior Engineer — Behavioral & Leadership
A senior-level behavioral interview probing leadership, conflict resolution, technical decision-making, and how you operate under ambiguity. STAR format expected throughout.
Mid-level Backend Engineer — Coding Interview
Meta-style coding interview with graph traversal, dynamic programming, and hash-map problems reflecting Meta's real interview bank.
Senior Backend Engineer — System Design
Amazon-style system design interview focused on distributed systems at AWS scale — expect leadership-principle tie-ins with high scalability demands.
Staff Engineer — Microservices Architecture
A staff-level system design interview on microservices architecture — service decomposition, inter-service communication, distributed tracing, saga patterns, and org-level trade-offs.
Mid-level GraphQL API Engineer
A mid-level GraphQL technical interview covering schema design, resolvers, the N+1 problem, DataLoader, subscriptions, and API security — modelled on Shopify's backend screening.
Mid-level Go Backend Engineer
A mid-level technical interview for Go backend engineers. Covers goroutines, channels, interfaces, error handling patterns, and building production-grade HTTP services.
Senior Node.js Engineer — Performance & Scalability
A deep technical interview on Node.js internals, performance profiling, and scalability for senior engineers. Covers the event loop, memory management, clustering, and high-throughput optimisation.
Senior System Design — Scalable Distributed Systems
A hard system design interview simulating a Google SWE senior loop. Design real distributed systems from scratch with deep emphasis on trade-offs, failure modes, and scale.
Google Bigtable System Design
Design Google Bigtable's distributed wide-column store covering SSTable layout, compaction, tablet serving, and strong consistency.
Kafka Distributed Log System Design
Design Kafka's distributed log architecture covering partitioning, replication, consumer groups, and exactly-once semantics.
ZooKeeper System Design
Design a distributed coordination service covering leader election, distributed locks, configuration management, and service discovery.
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Real Standards
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