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2-Week Interview Sprint

A focused fourteen-session plan that alternates architecture, coding, drills, and current engineering signals.

14 STEPS390 MINUTESDEVICE-LOCAL PROGRESS
  1. 01
    read25 min

    Day 1 · Requirements

    Frame functional and non-functional requirements.

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  2. 02
    practice25 min

    Day 2 · Estimation

    Recalculate capacity without looking at the worked answer.

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  3. 03
    practice35 min

    Day 3 · Coding pattern

    Implement or explain the LRU cache invariants.

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  4. 04
    practice30 min

    Day 4 · Architecture

    Redraw the logging architecture from memory.

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  5. 05
    read25 min

    Day 5 · Delivery semantics

    Explain acknowledgement, retry, and deduplication.

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  6. 06
    lab25 min

    Day 6 · Decision lab

    Tune a high-throughput API scenario.

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  7. 07
    review20 min

    Day 7 · Weekly signal

    Review the current weekly engineering topic trends.

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  8. 08
    read25 min

    Day 8 · Storage

    Compare hot search storage with the durable archive.

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  9. 09
    read25 min

    Day 9 · Query execution

    Explain pruning, pagination, and cold-query routing.

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  10. 10
    practice30 min

    Day 10 · Practice deck

    Complete a timed questions-only pass and self-rate.

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  11. 11
    read25 min

    Day 11 · Multi-region

    Choose failover and replication semantics.

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  12. 12
    lab30 min

    Day 12 · Consistency lab

    Compare ledger and global-feed presets.

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  13. 13
    review25 min

    Day 13 · Failure review

    Name what breaks first and how the system degrades.

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  14. 14
    practice45 min

    Day 14 · Full mock

    Deliver the design in forty-five minutes, then compare with the summary.

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