🗺️ How to prepare the technical interview

A strategic approach to prepare your interviews + 🎁 Free Notion interview tracker I used to prepare my interview

Writing this newsletter has been a challenge for the last couple of months. I was preparing for an internal interview loop to switch teams.

I had to be very deliberate on this one. I was hired as a new grad SDE-1 at Amazon, so I didn’t have a system design interview or expectation to talk from experience in other companies. Now I’m an SDE-2 and both are expected for my level.

I’m happy to share that I passed my interviews with the team I wanted. During the next month, I’ll share 4 posts about how to prepare these interviews:

• 🗺️ How to prepare the technical interview (this post).

• 🧙‍♂️ How to prepare the behavioral interview.

• 🤖 How to prepare the coding interview.

• 🐲 How to prepare the system design interview.

🚲 Initial preparation

🏁 Start with the end in mind

Let’s define the goals of the interview loop:

1️⃣ Make the interviewer’s emotional brain feel that you are the kind of person they want to work with.

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