Walk in prepared.
Walk out with the offer.
Six stages, from the night before the screening call to the offer letter — written to be read in the order things actually happen.
The path
Six stages, in the order a hiring process runs. Start anywhere.
The 24 hours before
Sleep, prepared questions, and the right version of your CV. Most of what decides an interview is settled the night before.
The recruiter call
How to talk about salary, gaps, and "why us" without sounding rehearsed — in the half hour that decides whether there is a next round.
The technical rounds
Live coding, system design, case studies and take-homes — how to be assessed on your thinking rather than your recall.
The behavioral rounds
Story frames that work, a bank of seven you can reach for, and the four questions almost every panel asks in some form.
Onsites and loops
Four conversations in one day, the same story told five times, and the trap that sits at the end of every one of them.
Offer and negotiation
Reading the contract properly, the arithmetic behind a counter-offer, what equity is usually worth here, and how to decline without burning anything.