r/interviewpreparations

I have around 2 years of experience as a Java backend developer. The problem is, I get really nervous before and during interviews.

When I'm practicing alone, I can explain concepts well. But in the actual interview, my mind goes blank, I overthink, and I end up giving much worse answers than I actually know.

For people who overcame interview anxiety, what genuinely helped? Mock interviews? Breathing techniques? Mindset shifts? I'd love to hear practical advice that worked for you.

Guys any tips regarding interview loop any one has gone through it. Would be great if you can help.

can somebody tell me what kind of questions one can prepare for an internship interview like what do they actually ask.

Every "Accenture interview tips" post repeats the same trio: use STAR, say "I" not "we," bring a specific "why Accenture." All true, all table stakes, and none of it is what trips people. The stuff that does:

The behavioral runs in every round and gets its own score. People treat it as rapport before the real case and wing it. First rounds pair maybe 10 to 15 minutes of behavioral with the case, and a final can be a full hour of behavioral with an MD who keeps digging until a story runs out of depth. Treat it like a scored round, because it is.

The loop changes by service area, and this is the one people miss. Strategy and Consulting is case-heavy. Technology leans harder on architecture and domain depth. Song wants portfolio and creative process. Operations weights competency examples. Prep one generic set of five stories and you'll overfit one round and underperform another. Prep to the arm you applied to.

The group case at the assessment center is scoring how you treat the other candidates, not how smart you look. Both failure modes show up constantly: the person who bulldozes to seem like a leader, and the person who goes silent. What scores is proposing the structure, then pulling a quiet candidate in and building out loud on someone else's point. It's a collaboration test in a case costume.

And if you're going for Strategy, ask your recruiter whether you'll get a Potentia-style round. It's abstract and creativity-focused, no market-sizing, no framework to lean on, just "what do you make of X." Case-drilled people freeze because there's nothing to structure. Walk in with a couple of opinions on industry shifts you can defend.

They do publish the six competencies they grade, so aim a story at each. That part everyone gets right. The four above are where the offer is won or lost.

Disclosure: I work in interview prep, so grain of salt. Not pitching anything. This is just what keeps surfacing in Accenture debriefs.

I'm a recent CS graduate currently working at a startup, and I want to make FAANG (or equivalent top tech companies) my long-term goal.

There are so many roadmaps online that it's overwhelming. I'd really appreciate advice from people who've actually made it.

Specifically, I'm looking for:

• What should I focus on first?
• DSA roadmap (topics + LeetCode progression)
• When to start System Design
• Projects that actually help
• Backend vs Full Stack vs Mobile—does it matter?
• How important is open source?
• Resume tips that helped you get interviews
• Timeline (6 months, 1 year, 2 years?)
• Common mistakes you wish you had avoided
• Resources you found most valuable

If you were starting from Day 0 today, what exact roadmap would you follow until you landed a FAANG (or FAANG-level) offer?

Thanks in advance! I'd love to learn from your experiences.

I have google virtual onsite coming up in 2 weeks which has 4 rounds.

Infrastructure Domain coding round

System Design

Coding Round

Googleyness

**Has anyone been through the infrastructure domain rounds? What kind of questions do they usually ask? Since it specifically said coding round, LLD with concurrency and memory management? **

Interview Level - L5

YOE - 8YRS

Role - FTE, Software Engineer

Tomorrow is my interview at a FAANG level company for an UI/UX intern role. I don't know what to prepare and where to prepare from. Need help.

I applied for a data analyst job recently (I have a background in logistics and finance) and I’m a little nervous seeing as this is a new field to me. Would you happen to know what they may ask me during the interview?

What can I do for that role how should I crack the interview? Im a fresher and I have little experience in interview because it is my 2nd interview hope anyone can help me for this what questions they ask what should they expect from me ?

Which type questions they ask ?

Give me some good suggestions to crack the interview for this role

Behavioral interviews are a trip. There's all these different frameworks and all this different advice. Before every interview, I have sat for hours watching videos and preparing. I would've loved to have a coach that would talk to me back and forth, kind of like Chan GPT, but just for this.

So I decided to make one as a site project. Right now, you can use it five times for free. And if you like it, let me know. If you don't like it, let me know also. And I put in a paid tier at 29 dollars.

https://behavioral.ktlystlabs.com/

I need some help in practicing some of the interviews. I have an upcoming on site interview at Capital One for the lead senior software engineer.

Even though I have a lot of notes from the recruiter, I don't know how to prepare for a coding and a case study interview. Can someone please share their experiences?

I feel I badly need guidance on these 2 interviews. The reason is that,

1. Whenever I've given any technical assessments which are non leetcode style, they've gone bad because I don't know how to practice. Like leetcode, if I could practice on a small codebases where I would have to extend it and probably work on a small feature or find bugs, it would be great. Most of the time, the only thing I needed is time.

2. I've never given a case study interview. It would be great to get some examples and answers so that I can learn and practice.

They have mentioned 4 rounds

1. Coding

- Leetcode style? - NO

- It would be more focused on building API, security, database schema, scalability

- They would ask 3 level based questions

• Solve all of questions
• For Design and Style, the interviewer will check if the solution is easily understandable by an engineer
• For a Function or a class in the solution, the interviewer'll check if the problem at hand is solved or not.
• For Technical communication, the interviewer'll check how the candidate is communicating.
• Need to ask clarifying questions and thats how capital one gauges your abilities
• Need to produce optimized, scalable and resilient solution
• The solution needs to be modular, extensible, and demonstrating modern tooling and best practices. Also, need to use the coding language that is best for 2026

2. System Design

- Primary focus will be on architecture. Probably banking related or credit card related system design question

- The interviewer will be focussed on 3 areas

• Designing style
• Technical concepts
• Technical communication

- No need to have any banking experience.

- Need to

• Ask Clarifying questions
• Gather
  • Technical Requirements
  • Non-technical Requirements

- The solution needs to be thorough and have deep dives about a few things atleast

- Need to make sure about (Not limited to)

• Resiliency
• Scalability
• Reliability
• Authentication
• Security

- For authentication, authorization, the interviewer might talk about API operations

- The solution also needs to address failures

3. Behavioral

- The interviewer can be anyone. Not necessarily a person from the technical background (any line of business from capital one)

- This kind of interview will be a standard behavioral interview

- Need to make sure able to answer in STAR method and break down systematically

- They'll focus on 2 main areas

- Overall communication

- Questions might be asked related to the Capital One values

• Handling conflicts --> Need to make sure that conflicts internal/external
• Learning continuously --> The candidate needs to be the initiator in the story. For example, the candidate found and issue or a problem on their own and fixed it.
• Delivered results --> Make sure to quantify results, how you got the job done (very important)
• Influence (Huge important) --> As a senior lead, something you did which was positively impactful or you've influenced and how you swayed people positively
• Team collaboration --> Ability to cross-team (functional) collaboration
• Embracing change --> How you went with the change happened around you. Capital one like to talk about failure --> Make sure that you don't end on failure (regular STAR method) --> Talk about
  • What went wrong,
  • What you learnt since then,
  • The change(s) that you made,
  • The success you've seen since then.

4. Case Study

- It will be graded in 3 areas

• Quantitative Analysis
• Technical Problem Solving
• Technical Communication

- There will be a coding element, but not going to be a coding from scratch

• Ability to review and optimize existing code
• Going to get real world business scenario. It could be anything --> any business problem
• Need to solve a simple mathematical using code signal

- Going to have a back story to the business problem

- The interviewer will continue to feed the candidate information

- Implement solutions out of the box, make callouts,

- Goal is to provide solution and in the end explain what your finding is and provide recommendation

• Think out of the box --> Provide diff processes while working through the problem

- Hint: Watch a youtube video - Ace your capital ones case interview -- > Business analyst case.

Hey everybody, I have a third round, in person interview for a company I am super interested in working for. I had a phone interview, then a zoom interview, now I’m scheduling the final round in person interview.

I have a family wedding at the beginning October that I am a part of, and will be traveling out of state for. I’ll be needing three days off for it, understandably unpaid since I’ll be so new. What I need some advice on is how and when do I disclose this to the interviewers. Do I tell them during my third round interview? Do I wait till I’ve been offered the position? And how should I word it to them?

Thank you in advance!

I can dedicate around 9 hours every day to interview preparation, and I'm targeting Full-Stack Developer (MERN) roles.

If you were in my position, how would you utilize those 9 hours each day to maximize your chances of cracking interviews? I'd really appreciate hearing how you'd structure your preparation and what you'd prioritize.

Mainly a question for startup founders or small/mid size companies because I am assuming these are the main ones who use takehome assignments as a new way to assess applicants

Free interview prep

I have performance anxiety when it comes to interviews. I freeze up, forgot basic details, I get sweaty, I stutter, I’m just an awkward mess. I have 9 years cybersecurity experience but I feel like I’ve been bombing all of my interviews. Being post partum has made me even dumber lol. Any advice for a shy gal like me?

I joined this startup which help companies to hire candidates . We are mainly tasked to take interviews and know about the candidates . Its new for me since I have never joined anything apart from SDE roles . We interview for all different domains, FE, BE , devops,AI , blockchain . The candidates have way more experience than me , some 7,9 YOE . Sugest me some questions that can be asked to them , mostly technical .

Thanks

Hey everyone!

So I just got big news, my CV got selected for the next of the hiring process within Airbus. The next step as per their last email:

*As part of the selection process, we invite you now to complete a pre-recorded video interview answering a set of questions*

Recently, As any of you went through such type of interview? What kind of questions they ask? Any tips of recommendations to prepare?

Any help will be appreciated! Thank you guys :)