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Learn · AI engineering first

Become the engineer companies are actually hiring for.

Five levels per track — read the chapter, answer the scenarios, unlock the next. AI engineering is our headline track; the others reinforce the system-design muscle behind it.

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AI Engineering Featured

Foundations → LLM engineering → RAG → agents → production. 23 chapters, 100 scenarios.

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High-Level Design

Distributed systems, scaling, replication, sharding. 17 chapters, 111 scenarios.

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Low-Level Design

SOLID, design patterns, 15 worked LLD problems. 21 chapters, 100 scenarios.

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DS & Algorithms

Pattern-driven prep — arrays, trees, graphs, DP. 100 scenarios.

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Primer & glossary ~70 essential system-design + LLD terms, defined briefly. Quick refresher before a session.
Scale stories · 15 case studies

From millions to billions.

Real architecture decisions from the products you use every day — Discord, Stripe, WhatsApp, Uber, Netflix, Pinterest, Figma, and more. The constraint that forced the rewrite. The boring tech that won. The cleverness you can steal.

DiscordWhatsAppInstagramUber NetflixStripeSlackPinterest DropboxTwitterCloudflareYouTube ShopifyFigmaAirbnb
Hiring manager round · The other half

Don't lose the offer in the behavioural round.

Six skills senior+ rounds actually test, the 60-minute structure, STAR done right, 18 real questions, a week-long prep drill, and the reverse-interview questions that signal "senior" to a hiring manager.

Leadership Disagreement Tradeoffs Failure Influence "Why this?" STAR framework 18 questions 7-day drill Reverse interview
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The Hirestack AI-weekly

One real-world AI engineering scenario in your inbox every Sunday — production traceoffs, RAG eval, agent design, cost runaways. Read it in 4 minutes; argue with the answer in your team's Slack.