Author
Shekhar Babu
Writes about technical interview rounds, system design and coding assessments.
83 articles
- Career Advice The Math Behind the Date on Your Relieving Letter Type a resignation date into LastRound AI’s notice period calculator and set the notice to 30 days, and on 6 September 2026 it returned Wednesday, 14… September 27, 2026
- Technical Prep Does Cracking the Coding Interview still hold up in 2026? In January 2025, Gayle Laakmann McDowell, the same person who wrote Cracking the Coding Interview back in 2011, co-wrote a full successor instead of a seventh… September 21, 2026
- Interview Questions What a Selenium interview is actually testing for On 6 September 2026 I opened the official Selenium docs page on waits to check one specific claim before writing this, because half the Selenium answers… September 18, 2026
- Company Guides What Flipkart actually tests, round by round I opened Flipkart’s official How We Hire page on 6 September 2026 and counted the stages it lists for the Flipkart interview process: application, screening, an… September 15, 2026
- 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- AI Tools AI Interview Copilots: Where Help Ends and Cheating Starts A Columbia student got three job offers rescinded for gaming a live coding interview with a hidden AI tool.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