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How FAANG Engineers Reverse Engineer Their Own Code
Episode 30 of The Tech Career Podcast explores a skill rarely talked about in FAANG interview prep: reverse engineering your own past work. Lucas and Luna discuss why the ability to deconstruct your own codebase — explaining design decisions, trade-offs, and failure modes — is increasingly prized in FAANG system design rounds and on-the-job code reviews. They break down a concrete example from a real senior engineer's promotion packet at a major tech firm, showing how reverse engineering a legacy module led to a company-wide refactor. The hosts offer a practical framework for building this…
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