Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience building high scale distributed systems. Currently migrating enterprise customers to cloud at Atlassian. Previously built payments infrastructure at Razorpay and PhonePe scaling them to handle billions of transactions a month. I have interviewed at Google, Uber, Atlassian, Stripe, Databricks, Airbnb, LinkedIn and other top product companies. I know firsthand what these companies actually look for, how their bars differ, and where most candidates lose points. Looking to provide my guidance on the following 1. System design interviews — distributed systems, scalability, real-world trade-offs from someone who's built systems at this scale in production 2. DSA & backend coding rounds — problem-solving approach, communication, and the details that separate a pass from a "borderline" 3. Resume reviews — tailored for product and fintech companies Interview strategy — how to position your experience, what to emphasize, common mistakes candidates make