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Technical Interview Roadmap

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Modern technical interview preparation topics.

This newsletter content is about the typical technical interview process that you'll face in the modern tech industry. We cover all kinds of content from AI usage, how to study for DSA interviews, and deep dive on technical topics like what indexing is for in databases or API design. Subscribe to this newsletter if you'd love to hear about WHY we ask you these questions, the level of detail we hope to hear, and more.

Audience
Developers, Engineers, Architects, QA/Testers, etc
Recommended pace
1 or more messages per week for general study, or daily if you're cramming for upcoming interviews
Prior Knowledge
These topics will be technical in nature, so some amount of software development or technical experience will be necessary to understand the approach of the topics so you can research more on each topic.

Topics / lessons

This is the current set of emails/lessons in this series.

  1. Getting Started: Your Technical Interview Roadmap
  2. Responsible AI Usage during the Job Search
  3. Understanding the Purpose Behind Technical Interview Questions
  4. Types of Technical Questions to Expect in Interviews
  5. Presenting Tradeoffs in Technical Interviews
  6. Handling Questions Beyond Your Skill Level
  7. Asking Great Questions: Your Interview Engagement Strategy
  8. Handling Technical Feedback and Rejection: Learning and Growing
  9. How to Study DSA
  10. Language Fundamentals: Getting Personal with Your Code
  11. Making Your Technical Projects Shine in Interviews
  12. Is There Such a Thing as a Future-Proof Tech Stack?
  13. Future-Proofing Your Tech Skills, part 2
  14. Object-Oriented Programming: Building with Objects
  15. OOP Deep Dive: Inheritance and Polymorphism
  16. Web Fundamentals: The HTTP Request/Response Cycle Explained
  17. URL, URI, and URN: Decoding Web Addresses
  18. HTTP Status Codes: Speaking the Server's Language
  19. Web Security: Understanding and Preventing Common Attacks
  20. Web Security Deep Dive: Protecting Your Applications
  21. Database Basics: Relational vs. Non-Relational
  22. Other Database Types for Interviews (Graph, Time-Series, Document)
  23. Database Indexing: Supercharging Your Queries
  24. SQL Queries: Hands-On with Your Data
  25. API Design: Building for Others to Consume
  26. Alternate API Types: Async, gRPC, SSE, and More
  27. API Consumption: Talking to Other Services
  28. API Authentication and Security
  29. Tell Me About Different Kinds of Software Tests
  30. Working With QA, QE, and SDET Roles in Modern Engineering
  31. Automation and CI/CD: Delivering Code Like a Pro
  32. Monitoring and Incident Response: Show Real Engineering Maturity
  33. Discuss Monolith Architecture versus Microservice Architecture
  34. Cross-Functional Team Communication
  35. Containers, Docker, and Orchestration in Interviews
  36. Version Control and Branching: What Interviewers Look For
  37. Code Reviews and Mentorship: How Teams Grow Strong Engineers
  38. Front-End Performance Engineering
  39. Backend Performance, Profiling, and Scaling
  40. Dependency Management for Frontend and Backend
  41. Accessibility, ARIA, and Inclusive Design
  42. Cloud Basics: AWS, GCP, and Cloud Platform Choices
  43. Cloud Infrastructure and Security: Infra as Code, Platforms, and Safe Ops
  44. Staying Current in Tech: Your Journey of Lifelong Learning
  45. Technical Interviews: A summary of the newsletter series

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