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The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
Lucas and Luna strip the mystique from Big Tech hiring, walking real FAANG interview questions — from system design at Amazon to behavioral loops at Google — and the specific preparation strategies that separate successful candidates from those who get ghosted. They analyze leaked interview rubrics, break down how hiring committees weigh competing signals, and discuss when it makes sense to target a lower-tier offer for faster equity growth. Lucas brings the data: offer-negotiation leverage…
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The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career StrategyHow FAANG Engineers Use Technical Writing to Get Promoted
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a career lever that often flies under the radar: technical writing. They break down why…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Turn Conference Talks Into Career Currency
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a powerful yet often overlooked career lever: speaking at tech conferences…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Open Source to Get Noticed
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into the practical ways engineers can use open-source contributions to stand out to FAANG…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use GitHub to Get Noticed
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how FAANG engineers use GitHub to build career momentum—not just by pushing code, but by curating a public profile that…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Technical Blogging to Get Hired
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how writing technical blog posts can accelerate your engineering career, especially when you're targeting FAANG…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Turn Interview Rejections Into Career Growth
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a surprising career lever: the interview rejection. Drawing on the story of a Google…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Behavioral Interviews to Show Leadership
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a surprisingly underrated interview skill: using behavioral questions to demonstrate…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Incident Reviews to Build Trust
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how FAANG engineers use incident reviews—blameless postmortems—to build professional trust…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Failure Postmortems to Level Up
In this episode, we explore how FAANG engineers turn postmortems after failed launches into powerful career accelerators. We break down the anatomy of a great…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use System Design to Lead
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how system design skills can transform engineers into leaders. They break down why mastering…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Code Review Feedback to Grow
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into the overlooked career lever inside FAANG engineering: the code review. They dissect how a…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Pair Programming to Accelerate Careers
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how FAANG engineers leverage pair programming not just to write better code, but to…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Turn Side Projects Into Career Moves
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how FAANG engineers strategically use side projects to accelerate their careers. They break…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Technical Reading to Stay Sharp
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a career strategy that often flies under the radar: deliberate technical reading. While most…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Coding Challenges to Stand Out
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a fresh angle on coding challenges: using them not just for interview prep, but as a…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Interview Loops to Negotiate Salaries
In Episode 154 of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into a strategy that most engineers overlook: using the interview loop itself as leverage for…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use First-Principles Thinking to Solve Hard Problems
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how FAANG engineers use first-principles thinking to break down complex problems and drive…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Technical Debt to Build Career Leverage
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how FAANG engineers strategically manage technical debt to accelerate their careers. They…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Design Reviews to Sharpen Their Work
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how FAANG engineers use design reviews as a career lever. They break down the…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Offsites to Build Career Momentum
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how FAANG engineers leverage team offsites to accelerate their careers. They break down the…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Mentorship to Multiply Career Growth
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the hidden mechanics of mentorship inside FAANG companies. You'll learn how to find a mentor…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Writing to Think Clearly
In episode 148 of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a skill that's often overlooked in engineering career strategy: writing as a tool for clearer…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Technical Interviews to Evaluate Culture Fit
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how FAANG engineers use the technical interview not just to assess coding ability, but to…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
The 30-60-90 Day Plan That Gets You Hired at FAANG
In this episode, Lucas and Luna break down the 30-60-90 day plan—not as a generic onboarding checklist, but as a strategic tool to stand out in FAANG…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Technical Specs to Win Arguments
In Episode 145 of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how FAANG engineers use technical specs as a tool for persuasion, not just documentation…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use LeetCode Patterns to Interview Better
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into the world of LeetCode patterns and how FAANG engineers leverage them to ace technical…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Learning Projects to Build Career Capital
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a career strategy that top tech engineers use quietly: side learning projects. Not the side…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Turn Feedback Loops into Promotion Fuel
In Episode 142 of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna dissect the overlooked skill of engineering a personal feedback loop at FAANG companies. Using the…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Documentation to Scale Knowledge
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how FAANG engineers treat documentation as a product, not an afterthought. They discuss the…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Technical Blogging to Build Influence
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how FAANG engineers leverage technical blogging as a strategic career tool. They break down…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Glue Work to Become Indispensable
Glue work—the invisible organizational, mentoring, and coordination tasks—is often undervalued but critical for career growth at top tech companies. In this…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Design Documents to Ship Faster
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how FAANG engineers use design documents to align teams, reduce ambiguity, and accelerate…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Blameless Postmortems to Build a Learning Culture
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into the practice of blameless postmortems at FAANG companies. Using real examples like Google's Site Reliability…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Internal Mobility to Accelerate Career Growth
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into the strategic use of internal mobility at FAANG companies. They reveal how changing teams…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Cross-Functional Projects for Career Growth
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into a career strategy that separates fast-tracked engineers from the pack: leading…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use the Manager Read to Build Trust Before Promo Cycles
In this episode, Lucas and Luna break down a practice common at Google, Meta, and Microsoft: the weekly Manager Read — a concise one-page update engineers send…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How Amazon Engineers Use Written Narratives to Replace Status Meetings
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into Amazon's practice of using written narratives—like the famous six-pager—instead of slide decks for meetings. They…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Career Ladders to Engineer Promotions
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna unpack the often-misunderstood tool that can make or break your promotion at a FAANG company: the…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Code Review to Accelerate Learning
Episode 131 of The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo explores how FAANG engineers use code review not just for catching bugs, but as a powerful tool for…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Skip-Level Meetings to Gain Visibility
Lucas and Luna dissect the underutilized career lever of skip-level meetings at FAANG companies. Lucas explains why many engineers waste these 1:1s with their…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Feature Flags to Deploy Safely
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how FAANG engineers use feature flags—also known as feature toggles—to decouple deployment from release. They walk…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Pair Programming to Onboard Faster
Pair programming is often seen as a tool for senior engineers to mentor juniors, but at FAANG companies it's a core onboarding technique used by everyone. In…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use API Versioning to Avoid Breaking Changes
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into a practical skill that rarely gets flashy attention but saves entire teams from production…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Decision Logs to Reduce Rework
Lucas and Luna dive into the hidden practice of decision logging — a lightweight habit that top engineers at companies like Google and Meta use to document why…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Debugging Journals to Think Clearly
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a powerful but underused practice at top tech companies: the debugging journal. Lucas shares…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Oncall Rotation to Ship Reliable Code
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into the oncall rotation as an engineering practice that FAANG engineers use to improve code quality and system…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Testing in Production
In Episode 123 of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the controversial but powerful practice of testing in production at FAANG companies. They…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Systems Thinking to Solve Ambiguous Problems
Lucas and Luna explore how FAANG engineers apply systems thinking to tackle ambiguous, open-ended problems that don't have clear solutions. Lucas breaks down…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use SOTAs to Level Up Fast
Episode 121 of The Tech Career Podcast explores how FAANG engineers use the State of the Art (SOTA) — a structured self-review document — to accelerate career…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Data Pipelines to Automate Decisions
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how FAANG engineers build data pipelines to automate decision-making at scale. Using a concrete example from Netflix's…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Dark Mode to Reduce Screen Time
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how FAANG engineers are turning the humble dark mode into a deliberate productivity tool —…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Rubber Duck Debugging to Solve Problems Faster
Ever spent hours staring at a bug, only to have the answer pop into your head the moment you explained it to a coworker? That's rubber duck debugging — and…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Collaborative Debugging to Ship Faster
Lucas and Luna dive into collaborative debugging — a technique used by FAANG engineers to resolve complex production issues by pairing up in real time. Lucas…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Graph Databases to Solve Complex Problems
Lucas and Luna explore how FAANG engineers leverage graph databases like Amazon Neptune and Neo4j to tackle complex relational problems — from recommendation…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Incident Postmortems to Build Influence
Episode 115 of The Tech Career Podcast explores how FAANG engineers turn incident postmortems into powerful career leverage. Lucas and Luna dive into the…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Design Docs to Scale Their Impact
Episode 114 of The Tech Career Podcast dives deep into the unsung hero of FAANG engineering culture: the design document. Lucas and Luna explore how a…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Debugging Mindset to Solve Ambiguity
Most engineers fear ambiguous problems — no clear requirements, no known right answer, just a vague goal. But at FAANG companies, ambiguity isn't a bug; it's a…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Technical Writing to Earn Influence
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a surprising skill that separates mid-level engineers from senior staff at FAANG: technical writing. Drawing on…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Debugging Tools Like strace and lsof
Lucas and Luna dive into the underappreciated art of using low-level debugging tools like strace and lsof, even in modern cloud-native environments. Lucas…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Status Pages to Reduce Incident Response Time
When something breaks in production, every second matters. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how FAANG engineers use real-time status pages—internal and…