Tips, guides & strategies to ace your interview

What to ship, what to skip, and the README signals that get you to the next round — based on hundreds of graded take-homes.

Why solo prep fails, what a useful mock looks like, and the four feedback signals that actually move your score.

The honest, confident framing for any gap — caregiving, layoff, burnout, travel — that doesn't trigger hiring-manager anxiety.

Small production fixes that change how serious you look on camera — plus the etiquette mistakes that quietly cost offers.

The framing that gets career-switchers offers — connecting transferable wins to the new role without sounding like an outsider.

The three-part answer that anchors high, leaves you room to negotiate, and doesn't end the conversation early.

What to expect in backend loops — REST/gRPC trade-offs, indexing, sharding strategies, and the questions that decide your level.

The 12 things you'll be asked about — from event delegation to React reconciliation to designing a virtualised list.