I’m a Software Engineer at Microsoft with prior experience at Cisco, working on large-scale backend systems and distributed infrastructure. I graduated from IIT BHU with a strong foundation in computer science and system-level engineering, and have gone through highly competitive product-company interview loops myself. Over the years, I’ve: Cracked multiple product-company interviews Conducted and shadowed real technical interviews Worked on production-grade backend and cloud systems Mentored engineers preparing for SDE1/SDE2 roles I understand what interviewers actually evaluate beyond textbook answers.