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Software Engineer Interview Prep Podcast

Prabuddha Ganegoda

Ace your Software Engineer interviews with confidence. This podcast helps you organize your thinking, strengthen problem-solving skills, and prepare effectively for real technical interviews. Topics covered include: Programming (Java & Python) Data Structures & Algorithms System Design AI for Software Engineers Interview strategies & mindset Whether you"re targeting Big Tech, startups, or senior engineering roles, each episode helps you think clearly, solve better, and perform at

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00:50:23

Cracking the Senior System Design Interview: RADIO,...

Software Engineer Interview Prep Podcast ·

2026/10/03

Senior system design interviews don't test whether you know what a load balancer is. They test how you think under pressure: how you handle ambiguity, weigh brutal trade-offs and defend every box you draw. In this deep dive we unpack the framework used to evaluate senior engineers, architects and principal candidates.You'll learn:- The RADIO framework (Requirements, API, Data model, Infrastructure, Optimize) and how to split your 45 minutes- The one question that instantly signals seniority-

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01:00:19

Kafka in Production: Failure Scenarios for...

Software Engineer Interview Prep Podcast ·

2026/10/03

A single misconfigured setting in Kafka doesn't just slow a page down. It can silently vaporize financial transactions. In this deep dive we walk through real production failure scenarios and the exact reasoning interviewers look for in staff-level system design interviews.You'll learn:- Why acks=1 loses data, and the four configuration layers for zero data loss- Consistency vs availability: why a healthy cluster refuses writes on purpose- Pushing from 400,000 to 2 million events/s with

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00:27:32

How WebSockets Power the Real-Time Web

Software Engineer Interview Prep Podcast ·

2026/10/03

Why does a chat message arrive instantly, but the web was never built for it? In this deep dive we unpack WebSockets: how engineers turned a request/response web into an open, two-way line, and what that costs at scale.You'll learn:- Why short polling, long polling and Server-Sent Events fall short (and the math behind 200,000 empty requests per second)- How the WebSocket handshake hides inside a normal HTTP request, and the "cryptographic high-five" that proves the server understood-

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00:19:54

Agentic coding Session 3 - Live Problem-Solving Under...

Software Engineer Interview Prep Podcast ·

2026/06/08

The mental model and the toolkit come together here. We cover managing a session in real time — when to course-correct, when to clear and restart — the five failure patterns that quietly tank your work and how to fix each, and a complete worked problem run end to end: explore, plan, implement in a fresh session, verify with tests, and review with an adversarial subagent. Plus scaling techniques and exactly how to demonstrate competence when someone is watching you code.

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00:21:33

Agentic coding Session 2 — Configuration & Extension...

Software Engineer Interview Prep Podcast ·

2026/06/08

This is where the deep technical interview questions live. Claude Code has five extension points — CLAUDE.md, skills, hooks, subagents, and MCP — and knowing which to reach for is a core competency. We break down each one: why CLAUDE.md is always-on context you must keep lean, how skills load knowledge on demand and why the description field decides everything, when hooks give you deterministic guarantees, how subagents isolate heavy work in their own context, and how MCP and CLI tools connect the

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00:23:41

Agentic coding Session 1 — The Agentic Mental Model

Software Engineer Interview Prep Podcast ·

2026/06/08

The Agentic Mental Model: what "agentic" means and the loop, the context window as the governing constraint, explore→plan→implement→commit, verification, and precise prompting.Most engineers meet AI coding tools as a smarter autocomplete. Claude Code is something else: an agent that explores, plans, and writes code on its own while you direct and review. This opening episode rewires how you think about the tool. We unpack what "agentic" actually means, why the context window is

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00:01:47

S1E1 [Preview] - The Job Changed While You Were Sleeping

Software Engineer Interview Prep Podcast ·

2026/06/06

SEASON 1 — "The Shift"Listen to - S1E1 Interview an engineer who transitioned from backend → AI engineer. Their story IS the season premise.

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00:49:35

S1E1 - The Job Changed While You Were Sleeping

Software Engineer Interview Prep Podcast ·

2026/06/06

SEASON 1 — "The Shift"Interview an engineer who transitioned from backend → AI engineer. Their story IS the season premise.

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00:46:28

The Behavioral Round - STAR/CARL

Software Engineer Interview Prep Podcast ·

2026/05/22

The behavioral round quietly decides more FAANG loops than coding or system design — and most engineers spend 300 hours on LeetCode and 45 minutes preparing for it.In this deep dive, we unpack:– Why FAANG weights behavioral signal so heavily (leveling, risk, culture fit)– The STAR framework, dissected letter by letter, with the failure modes at each step– CARL and why the Learning layer is the punchline, not an afterthought– How to choose between STAR and CARL in real time based on the verb in the

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01:00:19

Kafka Architecture and Triage Production Scenarios

Software Engineer Interview Prep Podcast ·

2026/05/17

Every scenario includes:Real-world context setting the stageThe interview question as it would be askedA structured model answerExact configuration parameters with values and reasoning

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00:09:31

System Design Interview: Payment Settlement Batch...

Software Engineer Interview Prep Podcast ·

2026/05/17

Design a batch processing system for end-of-day payment settlement at a payments company that processes 50 million transactions per day. The system must net merchant positions, calculate fees, and initiate fund transfers to merchant bank accounts within a strict bank cutoff window. Walk me through your design, covering reliability, scalability, and how you'd handle failures.Key TakeawaysThe outbox pattern is the canonical solution to the dual-write problem. Know it cold.Partition keys define

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00:07:48

Anatomy of `kubectl apply` - Inside the Kubernetes...

Software Engineer Interview Prep Podcast ·

2026/04/24

When I run kubectl apply, the request is sent to the Kubernetes API Server, which acts as the entry point to the cluster.The API Server processes the request through several stages:Authentication – validates the client (certificates, tokens, etc.)Authorization – checks permissions using RBACAdmission ControllersMutating (e.g., inject defaults, sidecars)Validating (ensure request is compliant)Once validated, the object is persisted.The API Server stores the Deployment object in etcd, which is the

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00:31:55

Deep Dive Kubernetes Pod Start and Failure Modes

Software Engineer Interview Prep Podcast ·

2026/04/18

What We Cover in This Episode:The Probe Trap, Why telling an interviewer that a "liveness probe failure removes traffic" is an instant red flag (it actually kills and restarts the container!), and why you should never check external databases in your liveness probes.The JWT Myth: Why saying "JWTs are encrypted" will cost you points. We explain how to articulate that standard JWTs are signed, and how to defend against the notorious alg: none attack.Silent Istio YAML Bugs: We

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00:27:47

The Architecture of Professional REST APIs

Software Engineer Interview Prep Podcast ·

2026/04/17

HTTP Contracts & Status Codes: The podcast will cover why returning a 200 OK for an error is a massive anti-pattern. Jenny explains the exact contract of 2xx, 4xx, and 5xx status codes, and emphasizes the use of trace IDs and machine-readable error envelopes so clients know exactly what went wrong and how to fix it.Versioning & Pagination: They will discuss the trade-offs of URI, Header, and Query Parameter versioning, with Jenny recommending URI versioning (/v1/users) for public APIs. For

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00:59:12

Mastering OAuth 2.0 & Microservice Security for...

Software Engineer Interview Prep Podcast ·

2026/03/27

Are you preparing for a senior security or backend engineering interview and struggling to articulate how to secure microservices in a zero-trust environment? In this deep dive, we break down the definitive guide to OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and advanced token security to help you move beyond textbook definitions and start designing banking-grade architectures.Whether you are designing a Backend-For-Frontend (BFF) or securing a massive microservice mesh, this episode is your ultimate cheat

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01:05:42

JVM Internals Deep Dive 8-25 LTS

Software Engineer Interview Prep Podcast ·

2026/03/25

JVM Architecture Overview — runtime data areas, memory model, flag reference tableClass Loading Subsystem — delegation model, loading phases, JPMS/Jigsaw module systemExecution Engine & JIT — tiered compilation levels (0→4), inlining, escape analysis, loop vectorisation, SIMD intrinsics, speculative optimisation and deoptimisationGarbage Collection Algorithms — deep dives on G1, ZGC (coloured pointers, load barriers, concurrent relocation), and Shenandoah; full comparison table across all

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00:07:42

Overview of Mastering REST API Design & Best Practices

Software Engineer Interview Prep Podcast ·

2026/03/25

Checkout the deep dive podcast here

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01:10:55

Mastering REST API Design & Best Practices

Software Engineer Interview Prep Podcast ·

2026/03/23

Mastering REST API Design & Best PracticesAre you struggling to articulate the exact difference between a basic API and a production-grade, evolvable API during system design interviews? In this deep dive, we break down the 10 pillars of REST API design to help you move beyond simple CRUD operations and start building like a Senior Engineer.What We Cover in This Episode:The Richardson Maturity Model: We explain the progression of RESTful APIs and why reaching Level 3 using Hypermedia (HATEOAS)

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00:54:24

Mastering Heaps & Priority Queues

Software Engineer Interview Prep Podcast ·

2026/03/20

Episode Description: Mastering Heaps & Priority Queues Are you struggling to recognize exactly when to use a Priority Queue in your coding interviews? In this deep dive, we break down the Heap data structure from the ground up to help you stop memorizing solutions and start recognizing the core algorithmic patterns. What We Cover in This Episode:The "Flat Tree" Secret: Discover how heaps cleverly flatten complete binary trees into simple arrays using basic math ((i - 1) / 2) to avoid

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00:06:11

[DSA] Sliding Window Algorithm

Software Engineer Interview Prep Podcast ·

2026/03/13

The Sliding Window Algorithm is a powerful technique used to reduce the time complexity of problems involving arrays or strings—specifically those that require finding a sub-segment that meets certain criteria.Instead of using nested loops O(n^2), the sliding window maintains a dynamic range that "slides" across the data, usually bringing the complexity down to O(n).Problem:Find the maximum sum of a contiguous subarray of size `k`.public class SlidingWindow { public static int

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