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Whiteboard Confidential

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15 episodes

Technical interview replays and deep-dive commentary, with engineers from the world's best companies: Google, Meta, OpenAI, and many more

Episodes

  1. Longest Consecutive Sequence: Go Interview with a FAANG Engineer

    · 1 h 06 min

    A candidate works through three algorithmic problems in Go during a mock interview with a senior FAANG engineer. This mock touched on correctness, complexity tradeoffs, implementation clarity, and communication — the…

  2. Binary Tree Views & Closest Pair Problem: Python Mock Interview with a Meta Engineer

    · 1 h 08 min

    REPLAY EPISODE: A candidate takes on two Meta-style interview problems—one array, one binary tree—and a Senior Meta engineer breaks down their performance step by step.In this Meta-style mock coding interview, a…

  3. Personalized Newsfeed system: ML System Design Interview with a Google Engineer

    · 1 h 07 min

    REPLAY EPISODE: In this Google machine learning system design interview mock, a candidate tackles a personalized newsfeed recommendation system — the kind of large-scale ML challenge that real Google engineers face. 🧩…

  4. Delete Nodes and Return Forest: Python Interview with a Google Engineer

    · 50 min

    REPLAY EPISODE: In this Google coding interview mock, a candidate tackles one of the trickiest binary tree problems that keeps showing up in real interviews. 🧩 Problem: Given the root of a binary tree and a list of…

  5. From Layoff to OpenAI: Clarifying Questions, Improv, Better Interviews

    · 1 h 08 min

    SPOTLIGHT EPISODE: What happens when a senior engineer stops “faking it” and starts treating interviewers like partners? Eamonn sits down with James—now at OpenAI, with prior stops at Pinterest, Reddit, and Discord—to…

  6. Amazon L5 vs L6 Expectation: Behavioral Interview with a Staff-Level Amazon Engineer

    · 1 h 03 min

    REPLAY EPISODE: Our candidate prepares for Amazon’s behavioral leadership principles interview. They practice answers around making high-stakes decisions without full data, handling disagreements with stakeholders, and…

  7. Seat Allocation at Scale: Coding Interview with a Google Engineer (Python)

    · 1 h 12 min

    REPLAY EPISODE: A candidate takes on their very first coding mock interview. The problem: designing a seat allocation algorithm for a cinema that can scale to billions of rows. Given a list of reserved seats, the task…

  8. Payment Pipeline Design at Netflix Scale: System Design Interview with a Netflix Engineer

    · 1 h 02 min

    REPLAY EPISODE: A candidate takes on their very first system design mock interview. The problem: designing a pipeline that connects rights management, financial accounting, and payments at Netflix scale. They need to…

  9. Design a Calendar for 100 Million Users: Senior/Staff System Design Interview with an Amazon Engineer

    · 1 h 02 min

    REPLAY EPISODE: In this system design mock interview, the candidate is asked to design the event management component of a large-scale calendar system — including functionality for creating events, sending invitations,…

  10. Whiteboard Confidential Trailer

    · 1:00 · Trailer

    Whiteboard Confidential brings you unfiltered interview replays with engineers from top companies like Google, Meta, and OpenAI. Raw problem-solving and candid feedback straight from the hiring seat. Once a month,…

  11. From 500+ Rejections to Senior MLE at Meta with Shawn Strausser

    · 51 min

    SPOTLIGHT EPISODE: What happens when a physics PhD and former pro poker player decides to break into big tech? Drew sits down with Shawn Strausser to break down how he went from burnout to hired by Meta as a Senior…

  12. Solve Binary Tree Challenges Under Pressure: Coding Interview with a Meta Engineer

    · 1 h 03 min

    REPLAY EPISODE: Our candidate is preparing for an upcoming Meta phone screen and takes on two tree-based problems under timed conditions. The first question involves finding the minimum depth of a binary tree, which…

  13. Build a Photo Sharing App for Up to 1 Billion Users: System Design Interview with a FAANG Engineer

    · 1 h 01 min

    REPLAY EPISODE: Curious how to approach large-scale design interviews? This is the level of depth, structure, and clarity that top companies like Stripe and Meta are actively looking for. In this mock system design…

  14. Detect Fraud & Scam Content: E6 Interview with a Meta Engineer

    · 1 h 14 min

    REPLAY EPISODE: In this episode of Whiteboard Confidential, an aspiring ML engineer with no formal industry experience impresses a Meta interviewer by tackling a complex system design question: how would you detect…

  15. What Separates E5 from E6 (Design Instagram Reels Interview with a Meta Engineer)

    · 1 h 14 min

    REPLAY EPISODE: In this episode, we have a real mock interview for a Staff Machine Learning (E6) role at Meta, where the candidate is asked to design the recommendation system behind Instagram Reels. This means…

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