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The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy

The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy

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Lucas and Luna strip the mystique from Big Tech hiring, walking real FAANG interview questions — from system design at Amazon to behavioral loops at Google — and the specific preparation strategies that separate successful candidates from those who get ghosted. They analyze leaked interview rubrics, break down how hiring committees weigh competing signals, and discuss when it makes sense to target a lower-tier offer for faster equity growth. Lucas brings the data: offer-negotiation leverage points, vesting schedules, and the probability of passing each interview stage based on public Glassdoor and Levels.fyi data. Luna pushes back with the human factors — how anxiety, overconfidence, and burnout affect performance, and why some engineers bomb take-home assignments despite perfect LeetCode scores. Together, they map the career lattice beyond FAANG: fintech, defense tech, climate tech, and the growing SaaS companies that now offer comparable total compensation packages. They also tackle the trade-offs between IC and management tracks, the rise of staff-plus roles, and how to decide whether to join a startup pre- or post-Series B. Every episode is grounded in a real job listing, a published compensation dataset, or a named company policy. If you're an engineer plotting your next move — or just trying to understand how the tech talent market actually works — this is the conversation you want to overhear. #FAANG #TechCareers #EngineeringJobs #SoftwareEngineering #InterviewPrep #SystemDesign #LeetCode #CareerStrategy #TechCompensation #BigTechHiring #ICvsManagement #StartupCareers #VestingSchedules #BehavioralInterviews #Business #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #Technology Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo© 2026 Fexingo. All rights reserved. Economics
Episodes
  • How FAANG Engineers Debug Production Issues Under Pressure

    How FAANG Engineers Debug Production Issues Under Pressure
    Jun 29 2026
    In this episode, Lucas and Luna dig into the specific techniques FAANG engineers use when debugging a live production incident. They break down the 'five whys' approach, how to isolate a bug when a million users are affected, and what to do when you have no idea where to start. Lucas shares a story from his time at a large tech company where a single misconfigured flag caused a 30-minute outage. They also discuss the importance of runbooks, postmortems, and staying calm when the pager goes off. The hosts talk about how senior engineers 'triage' issues and the difference between a root cause and a contributing factor. Finally, they touch on tools like structured logging, distributed tracing, and canary deployments that prevent disasters. By the end, listeners will have a concrete playbook for handling production fires without panicking. #ProductionDebugging #IncidentResponse #FAANGEngineering #SoftwareEngineering #DebuggingTips #RootCauseAnalysis #FiveWhys #Postmortem #Runbooks #OnCall #DistributedSystems #Monitoring #Observability #TechCareer #Technology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #EngineeringExcellence Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    8 mins
  • How FAANG Engineers Self-Assess Before Performance Reviews

    How FAANG Engineers Self-Assess Before Performance Reviews
    Jun 29 2026
    Performance reviews at FAANG can feel like a black box until your manager delivers the verdict. In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack a specific self-assessment framework that senior engineers at Google and Meta use to align their work with promotion criteria before review season hits. We walk through a concrete example: an Amazon SDE II who gathered evidence across three dimensions — scope of impact, technical leadership, and business influence — six weeks before her annual review. The result was a surprise promotion to SDE III. We also discuss common mistakes, like rating work by effort instead of business value, and how to calibrate your self-assessment with peer feedback without looking insecure. If you're a software engineer aiming to level up at a large tech company, this episode gives you a repeatable process for making your contributions visible and defensible. #FAANG #PerformanceReview #SelfAssessment #CareerGrowth #Google #Meta #Amazon #Promotion #Engineering #TechCareer #Technology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #SoftwareEngineering #CareerStrategy #ManagerFeedback #PeerReview #EvidenceBased Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    10 mins
  • How FAANG Engineers Use Writing to Get Promoted Faster

    How FAANG Engineers Use Writing to Get Promoted Faster
    Jun 28 2026
    Episode 79 of The Tech Career Podcast explores a skill most engineers overlook: writing. Lucas and Luna unpack why FAANG companies like Amazon and Google have institutionalized writing—from six-page narratives to design docs—and how strong writing actually drives faster promotions. They break down the specific structure of a memo that gets read, the common mistake of writing like a textbook, and the surprising data point that engineers who write well get promoted 1.6 times faster. With concrete examples from Amazon's PR/FAQ process and Google's design doc culture, this episode gives you a practical framework to level up your writing and your career. No fluff, just the mechanics of technical communication that moves decisions. #FAANG #EngineeringPromotion #TechnicalWriting #CareerGrowth #AmazonPRFAQ #GoogleDesignDoc #StaffEngineer #EngineeringCareer #TechCommunication #WritingSkills #PromotionStrategy #EngineeringLeadership #CareerAdvice #TechPodcast #Fexingo #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #TechCareer Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    13 mins
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