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Loop Engineering vs Prompt Engineering: Is Prompting Really Dead?

Sam Erickson
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Study: Coding Agents Follow Stale Instruction Files Over the Code

Sam Erickson

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Software Engineer Salary 2026: Pay by Level, City and Remote Status

Sam Erickson

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Why You Got Rejected After a Final-Round Interview

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Mastering the Tech Interview

Expert advice on the parts of tech interviews most candidates overlook. Reading time: about an hour.

A one-hour read for the night before your interview. Expert advice on the parts of tech interviews most candidates overlook.

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Tell Me About Yourself: An Answer Template for Software Engineers

Build a 60–90 second introduction using present, past, and why this role—with adaptable examples for new graduates, mid-level engineers, and career changers.

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  • 2 days ago
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Take-Home Coding Assignments: What Reviewers Actually Check

Learn how to turn an interview brief into a focused, reviewable submission—with meaningful tests, a useful README, honest commits, and trade-offs you can explain.

  • Sam Erickson
  • 2 days ago
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System Design Interview: How to Communicate Your Design

Learn how to lead a system design conversation: clarify scope, estimate useful numbers, sketch the main flows, and explain trade-offs through a worked URL-shortener example.

  • Sam Erickson
  • 2 days ago
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Negotiating Your First Software Engineering Offer

Learn how to compare your first engineering offer, research a defensible target, make a clear counteroffer, and handle deadlines without bluffing.

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JavaScript Interview Questions

Prepare for JavaScript interviews with concise explanations and runnable examples of closures, this, the event loop, promises, prototypes, equality, scope, and modules.

  • Sam Erickson
  • 2 days ago
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How to Prepare for a Software Engineering Interview

A practical three-week plan for recruiter research, realistic coding practice, behavioral stories, system design, interview-day logistics, and follow-up.

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