Bits, Bobs & Breakpoints — Aaron Holmes
Interview Coding Take-Homes: Part 3# 15 December 2025 Programming, Software, Interviewing UCLA Health - Population Analysis# This take-home was about the data ingestion and cleaning population data. The goal was to take messy JSON from an API and turn it into a clean CSV, so the analysis and...
Bits, Bobs & Breakpoints — Aaron Holmes
Interview Coding Take-Homes: Part 2.b# 28 August 2025 Programming, Software, Interviewing UCLA Health - Terraform Module# This take-home was for a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer position in a key IT organization at UCLA Health. This is part b of a two-part take-home. Read the first part, Interview...
Bits, Bobs & Breakpoints — Aaron Holmes
Interview Coding Take-Homes: Part 2.a# 18 August 2025 Programming, Software, Interviewing UCLA Health - Maze Bug# This take-home was for a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer position in a key IT organization at UCLA Health. This is part a of a two-part take-home. Read the second part, Interview Coding...
Bits, Bobs & Breakpoints — Aaron Holmes
Interview Coding Take-Homes: Part 1# 3 August 2025 Programming, Software, Interviewing As software engineers, we are frequently asked to demonstrate our ability to architect and implement software. Sometimes this is done through algorithm and data structure live-coding interviews, sometimes...
AbdulFattaah Popoola
Introduction This post presents tips for the interview process and valuable resources, especially during this challenging whirlwind of layoffs. Most of these are lessons from my 100+ hours of interviewing at ~20 companies. Job Inertia Most of us only start job searching when something...
DK
I just had the chance to experience 8 different technical interview processes. And they were not what I expected! I didn’t get asked a single data structures and algorithms question. No leetcode for me. This may largely be related to the types of organizations that I applied. Despite writing a...
Sufian Rhazi
Reflecting on interviewing for senior IC/management positions