Interview Coaching

As a “bar raiser” at Amazon/AWS, I led over 1,000 technical interviews and hiring decisions, up to the Principal (L7) level. Today, I help people practice for these kinds of interviews by teaching them how to prepare and giving mock interviews with feedback.

I have experience with a variety of types of interviews and I can design a mock interview or study plan based on the type of position you're looking for, or where you feel you need the most help.

Practice Makes Perfect

Behavioral, leadership, and culture-fit interviews

These kinds of interviews are often still technical, but they involve you talking about your accomplishments and decision-making in past roles, instead of solving hypothetical or contrived interview problems. There is an art to summarizing your past work in an accessible narrative format, and this kind of interview becomes increasingly important in more senior roles, even for ICs.

Coding exercises

These can range from short, timed coding challenges, to longer take-home assignments. Contrary to popular belief, there is not a lot of value in "grinding LeetCode/HackerRank" after a certain point. But with some simple strategies to keep in mind and a bit of practice, anyone who can code can get better at these.

System architecture & whiteboarding

Often used for more senior technical roles (especially those with "architect" in their title), this kind of exercise will have you designing a larger-scale application or software system at a component level. You might describe your solution verbally, draw it using a digital whiteboarding tool, or even ink-and-paper-over-video-call. Just like any other kind of interview, there are pitfalls to avoid and simple strategies you can use to get better.

I don't only coach Software Engineers!

I have a lot of experience both interviewing and coaching individuals in other software-adjacent or even non-technical roles, such as:

Software Engineer in Test (SDET)
QA Engineer
Engineering Manager
Project/Program/Product Manager
Data Scientist
Data / BI Engineer