You Built It. Now Own It: Interview Essentials for Engineers

​Interviews at top tech companies are often less about your tech stack and more about how clearly you communicate your experience, your impact, and how you think. This live workshop is designed for engineers who want to show up with confidence and clarity in these conversations.

​In 45 minutes, you will:

• ​Understand what tech company founders, hiring managers, and recruiters really look for in candidates, beyond their resume.

• ​Learn how to talk about your projects, outcomes, and failures in a way that resonates with interviewers.

• ​Get simple frameworks to structure your answers, tell your story, and handle common "behavioral" and "culture fit" questions.

• ​Reflect on your own career so far and identify 2–3 strong stories you can reuse across interviews.

​Who this is for

• ​Software engineers, data/ML engineers, and platform/infra engineers based in the US.

• ​Early/mid/staff level professionals exploring new roles at tech companies.

• ​Anyone who feels "I do good work but I struggle to communicate it well in interviews."

​What to expect

• ​45 minutes of content.

• ​No live coding. The focus is on communication, context, and clarity.

• ​Practical examples and prompts you can directly apply to your upcoming interviews.

​What you'll walk away with

• ​A reusable story bank of 3–5 strong examples from your experience.

• ​A simple structure for answering "Tell me about yourself", "Biggest challenge", and "Why this company?"

• ​More confidence speaking to recruiters, hiring managers, and founders at tech companies.

​🎙️ About the Host I'm Aakriti, Founder of a Tech Recruiting firm in Silicon Valley. I work with early-mid stage startup founders, helping them hire top engineering talent across US. I've coached hundreds of engineers on how to interview effectively at tech companies and I'll share the exact frameworks that work.