Interview lab

Prepare from first principles.

My working notebook for senior engineering interviews: behavioural stories, architecture trade-offs, and repeatable coding patterns.

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July 28, 20262 min readBehavioural
Behavioral Stories That Actually Show Seniority
A STAR answer is stronger when it reveals judgment, scope, trade-offs, and what changed afterward.
Behavioural Interview Prep Technical Leadership
July 24, 20262 min readSystem Design
System Design Drill: A High-Throughput Rule Engine
How to structure requirements, data flow, scaling, correctness, and operations in a 45-minute system design interview.
System Design Distributed Systems Event-Driven Interview Prep
July 18, 20261 min readAlgorithms
Learn Algorithm Patterns, Not a Thousand Problems
A retrieval-first method for turning LeetCode practice into reusable interview decisions.
Algorithms Interview Prep