Notes on getting your own experience into words.

Practical interview preparation: how to structure an answer under time pressure, what to do when you blank, and how to talk about work you actually did.

  • What to do when you blank in an interview

    Blanking is a retrieval problem, not a knowledge problem. Four things you can say out loud to buy time and get back to the answer you already know.

  • How to answer "walk me through a bug you fixed"

    A structure for debugging stories that shows how you think: symptom, wrong theory, what changed your mind, the fix, and what you would do differently.