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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…
Episodes
The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career StrategyHow FAANG Engineers Build Resilience Against Impostor Syndrome
In Episode 49 of The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how FAANG engineers develop psychological resilience to combat impostor syndrome…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Practice System Design Drills
Lucas and Luna break down how FAANG engineers systematically prepare for system design interviews through structured drills, whiteboard practice, and design…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Negotiate Stock Packages in 2026
In Episode 47 of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna dig into the specifics of negotiating equity compensation at FAANG companies in 2026. They break down…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Decide Between a Startup and Big Tech
Episode 46 of The Tech Career Podcast tackles one of the toughest choices engineers face: stay at a FAANG company or jump to a startup. Lucas and Luna break…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Handle Ambiguous Project Requirements
Episode 45 of The Tech Career Podcast tackles a challenge every FAANG engineer faces: ambiguous project requirements. Lucas and Luna break down a real case…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Optimize Their Resume for Internal Tools
Lucas and Luna dive into the hidden skill of resume optimization for internal tools at FAANG companies. They discuss why emphasizing internal platform work can…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Choose Between GCP AWS and Azure
Lucas and Luna break down the cloud platform decision that FAANG engineers face when building new services. They compare GCP, AWS, and Azure across cost…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Performance Metrics to Drive Promotions
Lucas and Luna dive into how FAANG engineers leverage performance metrics—not just code output—to build strong promotion cases. They break down a real example…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Negotiate Signing Bonuses in 2026
Episode 41 of The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo focuses on one specific, often-overlooked piece of the FAANG offer: the signing bonus. Lucas and Luna break…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Make the Leap from IC to Engineering Manager
In this episode, Lucas and Luna break down the specific skills and mindset shifts required to transition from individual contributor to engineering manager at…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use System Design Interview Frameworks
Episode 39 of The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo dives into a specific system design interview framework used by FAANG engineers. Lucas and Luna break down…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Leverage Internal Mobility for Career Growth
Episode 38 of The Tech Career Podcast dives into internal mobility at FAANG companies—how engineers can move between teams, roles, and even locations without…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Write Technical Design Docs That Get Approved
Episode 37 of The Tech Career Podcast dives into one of the most underrated skills at FAANG: writing a technical design doc that actually gets buy-in. Lucas…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Handle Code Review Conflicts
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into one of the most underrated career skills for FAANG engineers: navigating code review…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use GitHub Copilot in 2026
Lucas and Luna dive into how FAANG engineers are actually using GitHub Copilot in 2026 — not just as an autocomplete tool, but as a scaffold for writing…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Build Their Personal Brand on GitHub
Episode 34 of The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna explore how FAANG engineers use GitHub as a personal branding tool—not just for code, but…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Handle Toxic Managers
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna tackle one of the most challenging topics in big tech: toxic management. They break down how FAANG…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Mentorship to Accelerate Their Careers
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how FAANG engineers leverage mentorship to accelerate their careers. They discuss why…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Recover From a Bad Performance Review
Getting a poor performance review at a FAANG company feels like a career earthquake — but the smartest engineers use it as a reset button, not a resignation…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
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…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How to Ace a FAANG Engineering Phone Screen in 2026
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna break down the FAANG engineering phone screen process in 2026. They cover what to expect, how to…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How to Build a Technical Network Before a FAANG Interview
Lucas and Luna discuss a rarely covered but critical lever for FAANG engineering candidates: building a professional network before you even apply. Lucas…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Handle Imposter Syndrome
Lucas and Luna explore how FAANG engineers actually deal with imposter syndrome on the job. They discuss a 2025 Blind survey where 67% of FAANG engineers…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Prepare for Promotion Packets
Most engineers think a promotion at a FAANG company comes from doing great work. But at companies like Meta and Google, a promotion actually depends on a…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How to Negotiate Your FAANG Offer Like a Pro in 2026
Episode 25 of The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo dives into the art of negotiating a FAANG offer in 2026. Lucas and Luna break down the specific tactics that…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
What FAANG Engineers Actually Do in Their First 90 Days
Episode 24 of The Tech Career Podcast breaks down the real onboarding experience at FAANG companies in 2026. Lucas and Luna trace a typical first 90 days for a…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How to Handle a FAANG Interview That Goes Off Script
Lucas and Luna tackle a stressful but common scenario: your FAANG coding interview veers off the planned question. Maybe the interviewer adds a constraint you…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How to Ask for a Promotion at FAANG
Lucas and Luna break down the concrete steps for getting promoted at a FAANG company, using the specific case of an engineer at Google who went from L4 to L5…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How to Answer FAANG Engineering Behavioral Questions That Ask About Failure
Episode 21 of The Tech Career Podcast takes on one of the hardest FAANG behavioral interview questions: 'Tell me about a time you failed.' Lucas and Luna break…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How to Handle a FAANG Counteroffer Without Burning Bridges
You've got a FAANG offer—congratulations. Then your current company matches it with a counteroffer. What do you do? Lucas and Luna walk through a real case: a…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How to Transition From a Startup to a FAANG Engineering Role
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the strategic differences between startup and FAANG engineering careers, focusing on how to successfully transition…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How to Build a Tech Portfolio That Gets Recruiters to Call You
Lucas and Luna discuss the power of a curated 'tech portfolio' — a public collection of code, design docs, and blog posts that demonstrates engineering skill…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How to Handle a FAANG Interview Rejection and Bounce Back
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna tackle one of the toughest moments in any engineer's job search: getting a rejection from a FAANG…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How FAANG Engineers Use Side Projects to Stand Out
Lucas and Luna explore how side projects actually tip the scales in FAANG engineering interviews — and not just the 'build an app' kind. They break down a real…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How to Decide Between a FAANG and a Startup Offer
Lucas and Luna help you weigh a FAANG offer against a startup offer — not just salary and equity, but equity structure, vesting schedules, liquidity timelines…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How to Prepare for a FAANG Behavioral Interview in 2026
Episode 14 of The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo dives deep into behavioral interviews at FAANG companies. Lucas and Luna break down the STAR method with a…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How to Choose the Right FAANG Team Before You Accept
Episode 13 of The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo dives into one of the most underrated career decisions: picking the right team before accepting a FAANG…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
What FAANG Engineers Read on Their First Day
Episode 12 of The Tech Career Podcast dives into the culture of first-day reading lists at FAANG companies. Lucas and Luna explore why companies like Google…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How to Ace a FAANG Engineering Take-Home Assignment
Lucas and Luna break down the often-overlooked take-home engineering assignment used by FAANG companies like Meta and Apple. They walk through a real example…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How to Prepare for a FAANG Engineering Apprenticeship
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the fast-growing alternative route into Big Tech engineering: apprenticeships. They break…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How to Ace a FAANG System Design Interview in 2026
Lucas and Luna dive into what makes a system design interview different in 2026, using the example of designing a real-time ride-sharing platform. Lucas…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
Why Your FAANG Interview Rejection Might Be a Resume Problem
Lucas and Luna dive into a hidden reason many engineers get rejected at FAANG interviews: a mismatch between the resume and the interview narrative. Using a…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
What FAANG Recruiters Look for in a Resume
Lucas and Luna break down how FAANG recruiters actually screen engineering resumes in 2026. Drawing from leaked internal guidelines and interviews with former…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How to Prepare for a FAANG Coding Interview in 2026
Lucas and Luna break down the practical steps for preparing for FAANG coding interviews in 2026, focusing on the 5-step framework used by a recent Amazon hire…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How to Answer Behavioral Interview Questions at FAANG
Episode 5 of The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo dives into the most underrated part of FAANG engineering interviews: the behavioral round. Lucas and Luna…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How to Negotiate Stock Compensation at FAANG
Lucas and Luna break down how FAANG engineers negotiate equity compensation — RSUs, refreshers, and the signing bonus trade-off. Using a real case of a…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
Why System Design Interviews Are Different at FAANG
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna unpack why system design interviews at FAANG companies test fundamentally different skills than…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How to Negotiate Your First Engineering Salary
Lucas and Luna break down the specific strategies and scripts engineers can use to negotiate their first job offer in tech. Using the real case of a bootcamp…
- The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy
How a Google Engineer Landed a Job Without a Degree
In this debut episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna dissect the story of Sarah Chen, a self-taught engineer who landed a job at Google without a…