External Resources

Sometimes, I want to help an engineer with something, but then I realize that someone else has already said or done whatever I would say or do. Here are links to those resources.

I recommend each of these fairly strongly, so let me know if you have a bad experience with any of them.

Interview prep

• Get That Coding Job, article by George Mauer. Outlines the job hunting process at a high level, including a neat Fermi estimation tool

• Cracking the Coding Interview – Book about the whole SWE job hunting pipeline (resume, application, behavioral interviews, coding interviews), including a bunch of examples

• Interview Cake – Asynchronous course for technical interviews

• interviewing.io – Anonymous, synchronous, mock technical interviews

• LeetCode – Practice asynchronous coding interviews

• Hired – Platform to match SWEs with employers. (This is a referral link.)

• Impact Interview: SWE Interview Coaching – Synchronous, mock technical interviews with iterative feedback

Also, here’s my favorite video on technical behavioral interviews!

This guy has also written a book recently, which is probably good.

Engineer advancement beyond Senior

• The Staff Engineer’s Path, by Tanya Reilly

• StaffEng, by Will Larson

• The Manager’s Path, by Camille Fournier

• Managing Humans, by Rands

Communication

• Ask a Manager, by Alison Green

• Crucial Conversations, by Crucial Learning