As global digital platforms scale to serve billions of users, the need for robust, extensible, and developer-friendly backends has never been more urgent. Designing systems that can not only handle ...

For many software engineers, back-end interview preparation has long been treated as a numbers game: solve enough algorithm problems, memorize a few system-design templates, and rely on repetition to ...

From June 2025 through August 2025 I interviewed with Meta and started in September 2025 as a Software Engineering Manager. After 15 interviews and countless conversations with my recruiter, this is ...