Author
Shekhar Babu
Writes about technical interview rounds, system design and coding assessments.
85 articles
- Company Guides The gap between Amazon’s engineering levels isn’t years, it’s blast radius Search Console shows people typing “amazon sde 2 interview experience” and “amazon interview questions sde2” into Google and mostly not clicking anything. Across a 45-day window… September 12, 2026
- Company Guides What the TCS NQT actually tests, and why the score band matters more than passing On 6 September 2026 I tried to open TCS’s own NQT page four different ways: the careers portal, the early-careers page, tcsnqt.com, and the press release… September 9, 2026
- Career Advice Cursor vs GitHub Copilot 2026: Which One Should You Use? Cursor vs Copilot in 2026 — honest comparison of how they actually feel day to day, what each is best at, and which one fits your… September 7, 2026
- AI Tools AI Interview Copilots: Where Help Ends and Cheating Starts A Columbia student got three job offers rescinded for gaming a live coding interview with a hidden AI tool. LastRoundAI sells a tool in the same… September 6, 2026
- Career Advice How Many Jobs Should I Apply to Per Week? A data-driven look at how many jobs you should apply to per week, using 2026 application-volume data from iCIMS and Indeed Hiring Lab, Jobscan's recruiter-survey data… September 6, 2026
- Career Advice Resume Tailoring for Every Job, Without Rewriting It 50 Times Over 99.7% of recruiters surveyed by Jobscan in 2025 said they run a filter in their ATS, and title-matched resumes get 10.6x more interview requests. This… September 4, 2026
- Career Advice The Amazon Online Assessment Is Four Tests, Not One Most Amazon online assessment prep only covers the coding section. It's actually four timed parts, and the three non-coding sections are where strong engineers get filtered.… September 3, 2026
- Career Advice What Free Mock Interview Practice Actually Gets You in 2026 Google retired Interview Warmup in 2026, leaving Pramp (now Exponent Practice), interviewing.io, and Yoodli as the real free mock interview options left. This checks each one… September 3, 2026
- AI Tools 9 Auto-Apply Job Tools, Priced Out for 2026 Nine auto-apply job tools compared on verified 2026 pricing, review controls, and ATS coverage, including the two whose pricing vendors won't publish and where LastRound's included… August 30, 2026
- Career Advice Ghost Jobs: How to Spot Listings That Will Never Hire You A researched look at how common ghost job postings actually are, using verified 2024-2026 survey data from ResumeBuilder.com and Greenhouse plus Forbes' reporting on new state… July 26, 2026