For weeks, your company’s Blind has been going bonkers over rumors of layoffs. One not so fine day, a mysterious calendar invite pops up on your inbox. A few minutes later you get an email from the CEO saying how unfortunately they have to cut the company’s workforce. Macro-economic blah…

In the previous post, we talked about why it is ethical to negotiate your job offer. In this post, we’ll cover the pre-work that you’d need to do before embarking on an offer negotiation. Step 1: Know how much the market pays for your skills Like we discussed in the…

If you’re like me and the words “negotiate your job offer” makes your belly squirm, read on. When I graduated from university, I was desperate to get a job. I signed the first offer I had in hand. It was a great offer — six times the money I was…

I’m very grateful to see the overwhelmingly positive response for the Cracking the Engineering Manager Interview series. Many people have reached out saying how this series has helped them prepare for and succeed in their EM interviews, which is a humbling experience for me. I’m happy to continue sharing back…

In the first blog post, we covered a broad overview of the Engineering Manager interview loop. In part two, we covered the People Leadership round in detail, and in part three, we covered preparation tips and tricks for any situational interview. In this post, we’ll dive deeper into another typical…

In the first blog post of this series, we covered a broad overview of the Engineering Manager interview loop. One of the more popular formats in this loop is a situational interview. In this interview, the interviewer asks a series of questions to go over the candidate’s background in a…

Diving deeper into the People Leadership interview in the Engineering Manager Interview Loop In the previous blog post, we covered a broad overview of the Engineering Manager interview loop. In this post, we’ll dive deeper into one of the most common rounds in the interview process — the People Leadership…

Practical steps to prepare for and ace your next engineering manager interview While coding interviews have become more or less standardized across the industry, there is still a big variability when it comes to hiring for Engineering Manager roles. What questions get asked in an EM interview, is a concern…

Read about the counter-clockwise road to Hana here Maui is a bizarre island. Bizarre because it’s a microcosm of all possible climates on a tiny volcanic blob of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Having stayed in Kihei for about a week now, Maui to me was the…