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Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 11 posts
The Complete Guide to English Job Interviews: Passing on Structure, Not Fluency
What stops you in an English interview is rarely vocabulary. It is the shape of the answer. This guide covers the length and order of a self-introduction, the frame that links an experience as situation, role, action and
2026-08-16 · 30 min read #english#interview#career#communication#job-searchHow to Evaluate a Company — Signals of Growth and Signals of Stall
Most people evaluate companies in reverse order: brand, then compensation, then stack, and only afterwards the problems and people that actually build the engineer they will be in three years. This post separates the sig
2026-08-15 · 5 min read #career#job-search#interview#decision-making#company-cultureNot Building a Network When You Need One — How Reciprocal Relationships Actually Form
Opening your contacts after losing a job is usually the wrong order. Not because people are cold, but because the structure of a request gets heavy when the first message in years is a favor. This post explains why relat
2026-08-15 · 5 min read #career#networking#community#relationships#job-searchUsing an Interview as a Two-Way Read — Preparation Order and the Design Round
An interview is two hours in which each side draws a sample of the other. Use it in one direction only and you throw away half the information. This post explains why most preparation runs in the wrong order, what a syst
2026-08-15 · 5 min read #career#interview#system-design#job-search#feedbackWhat Is a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) — the Engineer Stationed at the Customer Site
Palantir invented the title, and now OpenAI and Anthropic are racing to hire for it: Forward Deployed Engineer, or FDE. This post pins down what the role actually is — an engineer whose coordinate system is the customer
2026-08-12 · 6 min read #career#fde#forward-deployed-engineer#ai#job-searchFDE Interview Prep — Diagnosis Scenarios, Customer Simulations, Case Studies
A Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) interview often replaces algorithm puzzles with incident-diagnosis scenarios on an unfamiliar system, and culture-fit questions with an angry-customer role play — because what it measure
2026-08-12 · 5 min read #career#fde#forward-deployed-engineer#interview#job-searchHow to Judge the Timing of a Job Change — The Question That Separates Running Away From Levelling Up
When you are torn about leaving, what you need is not courage but a standard. One sentence — would I stay if the problem vanished — separates the escape move from the growth move; a learning curve gone flat is a signal w
2026-07-26 · 12 min read #career#job-change#decision-making#growth#job-searchHow to Prepare for a System Design Interview — 45 Minutes Graded on How You Narrow Down, Not on the Answer
A system design interview has no right answer, so what gets graded is not what you drew but how you narrowed it down. A time budget that splits 45 minutes into 5, 10, 15, 10 and 5, the latency ladder worth memorizing by
2026-07-26 · 11 min read #career#interview#system-design#engineering#job-searchThe Craft of Salary Negotiation — Two Sides That Already Chose Each Other, Lining Up the Terms
The reason your hands freeze in front of an offer email is usually not a lack of information but embarrassment. Yet an offer means the company has already decided to pick you, and all that remains is two sides on the sam
2026-07-26 · 12 min read #career#negotiation#salary#job-search#communicationPrinciples of a Resume That Gets Read — Clarity, Not Flash, Decides Who Passes the Screen
A recruiter gives each resume only the first few dozen seconds. What the resumes that survive those seconds have in common is not a dazzling career but a structure that reads well. The formula that turns duty lists into
2026-07-20 · 6 min read #career#resume#job-search#writing#interview2026 Developer Job Market Survival Guide — Resumes and Job Search Strategy in the Age of AI Screening
How to survive the 2026 hiring market, where AI screening is universal and applications have exploded. Covers an impact-driven resume formula, ATS tactics, portfolio strategy, referral scripts, and salary negotiation, al
2026-06-12 · 18 min read #career#resume#job-search#interview#networking