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Data-driven insights about technical interviewing and hiring, based on 100k+ interviews.

Engineering management / careersSoftware / engineering practice

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108 from 22 Jun 2013 to 7 Oct 2026
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monthly (10 in the last year)
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2026 8

  1. Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview Full Text: Chapter 3 (What Recruiters Won't Tell You)
  2. Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview Full Text: Chapters 0-2
  3. Should you outsource your technical interviews? And should you use us or Karat?
  4. How to spot great non-traditional engineers (when you can't rely on brands)
  5. Anthropic guide
  6. More filters, same broken process: how AI sourcing tools are making hiring worse
  7. We built an AI model for eng hiring that outperforms recruiters and LLMs
  8. How to use AI in Meta’s AI-assisted coding interview (with real prompts and examples)

2025 9

  1. Stop memorizing STAR. Start selecting better stories.
  2. For 6 years, we ran the largest blind eng hiring experiment of all time. Here’s what happened.
  3. How is AI changing interview processes? Not much and a whole lot.
  4. Becoming an MLE at FAANG: What you need to know to know about MLE roles and interviews at Google, Meta, and other top companies
  5. Don't make recruiters think, or, why your resume is bad and how to fix it
  6. Why resume writing is snake oil
  7. It's OK to postpone your interviews if you're not ready
  8. Read nine chapters of Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview for free
  9. We co-wrote the official sequel to Cracking the Coding Interview

2024 13

  1. I love meritocracy, but all the recent anti-DEI rhetoric is bad
  2. How well do LeetCode ratings predict interview performance? Here's the data.
  3. How to do cold outreach to hiring managers. Part 2 of 2.
  4. How to get in the door at top companies: a data-driven guide for software engineers. Part 1.
  5. Why engineers don’t like take-homes and how companies can fix them
  6. Why interviewers aren't always great and how to make them better
  7. Are recruiters better than a coin flip at judging resumes? Here's the data.
  8. Refuting Bloomberg's analysis: ChatGPT isn't racist. But it is bad at recruiting.
  9. My manager is not promoting me. What should I do?
  10. User Story: Jamie White, MIT alum and eng manager at Roblox
  11. The unwritten rules (till now) of negotiating with Meta
  12. Want to work from home? That’ll be $46,282.
  13. We ran an experiment to see how easy it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews

2023 11

  1. When is hiring coming back? Predictions for 2024.
  2. How to sabotage your salary negotiation efforts before you even start
  3. I’ve never written code, but I just passed a Google system design interview.
  4. Why AI can’t do hiring
  5. Should you post #OpenToWork on your LinkedIn profile?
  6. Why you shouldn’t list certifications on LinkedIn
  7. We have the best technical interviewers. Steal what we do.
  8. How SWE behavioral interviews are evaluated at Meta
  9. Why giving feedback (good or bad) will help you hire
  10. How many engineers got laid off in 2022 and 2023 so far?
  11. We built an interviewer rating system.

2022 9

  1. You now need to do 15% better in technical interviews than you did at the start of 2022 (and the bar will keep rising).
  2. How much have 2022 layoffs affected engineers vs. other departments? We dug into the data to find out.
  3. Why we’re pausing our Pay Later Program
  4. The definitive list of companies who are hiring engineers right now
  5. Building interviewing.io's collaborative & replayable whiteboard, or making systems design interviews not suck
  6. What’s actually going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes? We surveyed 1000 engineers to find out.
  7. Does communication matter in technical interviewing? We looked at 100K interviews to find out.
  8. We analyzed 100k technical interviews to see where the best performers work here are the results
  9. Announcing our Pay Later Program: Don’t pay for mock interviews until you get a job

2021 5

  1. We’ve raised our Series A!
  2. Hamtips, or why I still run the Technical Phone Screen as the Hiring Manager
  3. How to write (actually) good job descriptions
  4. The 3 things that diversity hiring initiatives get wrong
  5. The technical interview practice gap, and how it keeps underrepresented groups out of software engineering

2020 8

  1. How do I know if I’m ready to interview at FAANG?
  2. Technical phone screen superforecasters
  3. I’ve conducted over 600 technical interviews on interviewing.io. Here are 5 common problem areas I’ve seen.
  4. 6 red flags I saw while doing 60+ technical interviews in 30 days
  5. Announcing the interviewing.io Technical Interview Practice Fellowship
  6. interviewing.io is finally out of beta. Anonymous technical interview practice for all!
  7. The Eng Hiring Bar: What the hell is it?
  8. No engineer has ever sued a company because of constructive post-interview feedback. So why don’t employers do it?

2019 5

  1. We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline problem in eng hiring.
  2. 3 exercises to craft the kind of employer brand that actually makes engineers want to work for you
  3. You probably don’t factor in engineering time when calculating cost per hire. Here’s why you really should.
  4. Can fake names create bias? An exploration into interviewing.io’s pseudonym generator
  5. There is a real connection between technical interview performance and salary. Here’s the data.

2018 4

  1. Terms of Service
  2. Impostor syndrome strikes men just as hard as women... and other findings from thousands of technical interviews
  3. Exactly what to say when recruiters ask you to name the first number… and other negotiation word-for-words
  4. We looked at how a thousand college students performed in technical interviews to see if where they went to school mattered. It didn't.

2017 4

  1. What do the best interviewers have in common? We looked at thousands of real interviews to find out.
  2. If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the same five schools
  3. We analyzed thousands of technical interviews on everything from language to code style. Here's what we found.
  4. LinkedIn endorsements are dumb. Here’s the data.

2016 7

  1. Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews… or how what you do after graduation matters way more than where you went to school
  2. You can’t fix diversity in tech without fixing the technical interview.
  3. After a lot more data, technical interview performance really is kind of arbitrary.
  4. People are still bad at gauging their own interview performance. Here’s the data.
  5. We built software to mask gender in technical engineering interviews. See what we learned and why it matters.
  6. A founder’s guide to making your first recruiting hire
  7. Technical interview performance is kind of arbitrary. Here’s the data.

2015 1

  1. Engineers can't gauge their own interview performance. And that makes them harder to hire.

2014 1

  1. Resumes suck. Here's the data.

2013 1

  1. Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

Undated 22

  1. For employers
  2. Gift mock interviews
  3. Give it a try
  4. Interview Replays
  5. System design mock interviews
  6. Machine learning mock interviews
  7. Behavioral mock interviews
  8. Data structures and algorithms interviews
  9. Staff-level mock interviews
  10. Apple mock interviews
  11. Meta mock interviews
  12. Amazon mock interviews
  13. Google mock interviews
  14. Microsoft mock interviews
  15. Netflix mock interviews
  16. Company Process Guides
  17. OpenAI guide
  18. Palantir guide
  19. Stripe guide
  20. Anduril guide
  21. Rippling guide
  22. Popular Interview Questions