Whiteboard Confidential
Episodes
Longest Consecutive Sequence: Go Interview with a FAANG Engineer
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A candidate works through three algorithmic problems in Go during a mock interview with a senior FAANG engineer. This mock touched on correctness, com...
Binary Tree Views & Closest Pair Problem: Python Mock Interview with a Meta Engineer
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
REPLAY EPISODE: A candidate takes on two Meta-style interview problems—one array, one binary tree—and a Senior Meta engineer breaks down their per...
Personalized Newsfeed system: ML System Design Interview with a Google Engineer
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
REPLAY EPISODE: In this Google machine learning system design interview mock, a candidate tackles a personalized newsfeed recommendation system — th...
Delete Nodes and Return Forest: Python Interview with a Google Engineer
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
REPLAY EPISODE: In this Google coding interview mock, a candidate tackles one of the trickiest binary tree problems that keeps showing up in real inte...
From Layoff to OpenAI: Clarifying Questions, Improv, Better Interviews
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SPOTLIGHT EPISODE: What happens when a senior engineer stops “faking it” and starts treating interviewers like partners? Eamonn sits down with Jam...
Amazon L5 vs L6 Expectation: Behavioral Interview with a Staff-Level Amazon Engineer
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
REPLAY EPISODE: Our candidate prepares for Amazon’s behavioral leadership principles interview. They practice answers around making high-stakes deci...
Seat Allocation at Scale: Coding Interview with a Google Engineer (Python)
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
REPLAY EPISODE: A candidate takes on their very first coding mock interview. The problem: designing a seat allocation algorithm for a cinema that can ...
Payment Pipeline Design at Netflix Scale: System Design Interview with a Netflix Engineer
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
REPLAY EPISODE: A candidate takes on their very first system design mock interview. The problem: designing a pipeline that connects rights management,...
Design a Calendar for 100 Million Users: Senior/Staff System Design Interview with an Amazon Engineer
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
REPLAY EPISODE: In this system design mock interview, the candidate is asked to design the event management component of a large-scale calendar system...
Whiteboard Confidential Trailer
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Whiteboard Confidential brings you unfiltered interview replays with engineers from top companies like Google, Meta, and OpenAI. Raw problem-solving a...
Beating the Odds: Poker, Persistence, and a Meta Offer with Shawn Strausser (Senior MLE at Meta)
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SPOTLIGHT EPISODE: What happens when a physics PhD and former pro poker player decides to break into big tech? Drew sits down with Shawn Strausser to ...
Solve Binary Tree Challenges Under Pressure: Coding Interview with a Meta Engineer
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our candidate is preparing for an upcoming Meta phone screen and takes on two tree-based problems under timed conditions. The first question involves ...
Build a Photo Sharing App for Up to 1 Billion Users: System Design Interview with a FAANG Engineer
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Curious how to approach large-scale design interviews? This is the level of depth, structure, and clarity that top companies like Stripe and Meta are ...
Detect Fraud & Scam Content: E6 Interview with a Meta Engineer
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Whiteboard Confidential, an aspiring ML engineer with no formal industry experience impresses a Meta interviewer by tackling a comp...
What Separates E5 from E6 (Design Instagram Reels Interview with a Meta Engineer)
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we have a real mock interview for a Staff Machine Learning (E6) role at Meta, where the candidate is asked to design the recommendati...