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I Kept Failing System Design Interviews After 8 Years of Experience. Here's Why.
8 years of building distributed systems didn't help me pass interviews. I was answering from habit, not strategy. Here's the RADAR method that fixed it.

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I Built Production Systems for a Decade and Still Froze at the Whiteboard
After 10 years building production systems, I kept freezing in interviews. Here's the 7-phase framework that finally fixed my whiteboard panic.

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How I Got My Staff Engineer Promotion in 90 Days (After Stalling for 2 Years)
I stalled at senior for 2 years before treating my promotion like a 90-day project. Here's the exact audit, evidence, and sponsor strategy that worked.

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I Was Already Doing Staff-Level Work. Why I Still Failed the Interview.
I'd been doing staff-level work for months but bombed my first interview. Here's the 90-day prep system I built after sitting on promotion committees.