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Ep 12: Interviewing in 2026 (Senior and Staff) feat. Amruta Akut
Amruta Akut started preparing for interviews in late May. By mid-July she had multiple offers.
She says she practiced fewer than five system designs. One company quizzed her on 12th grade probability.
Amruta is a software engineer with 15+ years of experience across Dassault Systèmes, Oracle, Roku, and Walmart, and she recently joined Zoox. I worked with her at Dassault. She went through this market in 2024 and again in 2026, and she tells me how different the two were.
In this one:
What has changed in interviews between 2024 and now
How she prepared her behavioral stories, and why the most…
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