AKAshutosh Krishnainblog.ashutoshkrris.in·2d ago · 11 min readRethinking Expense Validation: From Hardcoded If Statements to Pluggable Engines in JavaYou are sitting in a system design interview, or worse, staring at a pull request where a junior engineer has just added their fourteenth nested conditional statement to a reimbursement service. Softw00
ASAbirami Sriinabi-blog.hashnode.dev·6d ago · 8 min readDay 2 of My 30-Day DSA Journey — Strings with JavaScriptWelcome to Day 2 of my 30 Days of DSA with JavaScript. On Day 1, I started with basic array problems. Today, I moved into String problems and learned several important problem-solving patterns. The ma00
DJD Jindevprepapp.hashnode.dev·Aug 27 · 2 min readBest AI Voice Interview Practice Tools in 2026Preparing for a technical interview in 2026 means more than grinding LeetCode. Companies increasingly want candidates who can think clearly out loud, defend decisions under pressure and communicate co00
SKSHARIQUE KALAMinshariquekalam.hashnode.dev·Aug 25 · 3 min readBuilding idempotent REST APIs in Salesforce?In REST APIs, the POST method is inherently non-idempotent. This means that if a client calls an Apex REST endpoint annotated with @HttpPost using the JSON payload below, a new Case record will be cre00
MSMichael S Mooreincodemoore.hashnode.dev·Aug 24 · 4 min readI built a macOS app to make JavaScript live-coding interviews less anxiety-inducingLive coding interviews have always made me anxious. For a long time, I assumed that was the main reason I struggled with them. But recently, I’ve come to the realisation that anxiety is an excuse. I a00
FFerinferztyle.me·Aug 19 · 11 min readLeetCode 151: Reverse Words in a String in GoThe problem that looks simple until the whitespace shows up You open LeetCode 151 — Reverse Words in a String expecting a variation on reversing a string, and mostly, that's right. Given "the sky is b00
JYJae Yong (Jeffery ) Yuneintalentopian.hashnode.dev·Aug 18 · 5 min readNavigating Google's Interview Process: Your Complete Guidehttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/VGUE78dfdu4Google's interview process typically stretches from 6 to 12 weeks, depending on the role, and consists of five distinct stages: a recruiter screen, a technica00
TSTarun Sharmain101beardo.hashnode.dev·Aug 18 · 3 min readThe virtual DOM doesn't skip rendering. It skips writing to the DOM."The virtual DOM skips re-rendering unchanged parts" is one of those explanations that gets repeated so often it starts to sound obviously true. It's not quite right, and the gap between what it actua10
TTtest1 test1intheinterviewcopilot.hashnode.dev·Aug 14 · 7 min readShaving a second off a real-time speech-to-LLM pipeline in ElectronEvery part of a speech→LLM pipeline is fast enough on its own. Put them in a row and you get three seconds, which is far too slow when a human is waiting for you to say something. I build a desktop ov00
Ppracticedepthinpracticedepth.hashnode.dev·Aug 14 · 6 min readAI engineering interview questions: retrieval, evaluation and everything that breaksThe field is young enough that nobody has ten years of experience, so interviewers weight engineering judgement heavily over tool familiarity. The questions are less about what you have used and more 00
