So, I would say I am pretty bad in that, I never specially prepare for behavioral except AWS first in my life interview cause they are too focused on their LEADERSHIP PRINCIPALS.

In general, as I spoke with hiring managers, just don't be red flag: no racist, sexist, ultra right or ultra left (before Trump actually it was a plus). Sometimes being a diversity group helps (Microsoft has quotas for team), but don't be redflag, selfish, extra confident, don't talk shit about teammates, blame everyone etc.

I answered "ideally" in abstract situation that I made up a bit, because I never had PERFECT situation for any of those bullshit questions. Like you go and talk to person, and try to agree on approach, learn his point of view, because it might be the case that you are wrong actually. If you believe so - you agree with person - conflict is solved. If you believe that your design is better (not because you are better person, but because it costs less, can be delivered faster, etc) -> then go get this guy and discuss the problem with techlead/manager and let them decide. If you are manager -> try to go with whatever better for the whole team (costs less, can be delivered faster, better use/impact for the team and company, etc).

Sometimes the right answer, if the situation is that you are dealing with asshole -> move the guy to another team (I remember such question asked for Staff role at Microsoft, and it was correct answer, because the guy made everyone else's life a hell)

Again, with this type of answer I was getting offers. Is it correct? was it due to or despite that answer -> I don't know. I'm very bad at it and don't want really to improve as it is boring as fuck, and does not really tell anything to me except cutting out some real red flags (racism, overconfidence, sexism, etc)

Daily 331st day streak

Pretty easy interval question, definitely recommended, I have heard from somewhere that "intervals" related question was asked in mongodb.

https://leetcode.com/problems/remove-covered-intervals/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-07-06

#daily #medium #pattern

Fucking LLM. I was trying to dig deeper to DNS and learn the glue records, apex thingy, zones, get the mental model, trace down everything end to end and see actual ips.

This claude fucker and other llm useless crap gang failed to explain me in 4 hours. Just confused me more than I was before. Fucking useless nonsense omg. Yes, they replace us tomorrow, ofc. If this shit cannot explain ME what the fuck is this glue records, ns record, dns zone etc along with end 2 end dns. Believe me random vibe coder would fail to understand as well.

Daily 332nd day streak

Few minutes problem, free 10 coins, go for it

https://leetcode.com/problems/concatenate-non-zero-digits-and-multiply-by-sum-i/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-07-07

#daily #easy #nopattern

After concurrency article it seems like I will need to do a deep dive into dns😁

Essentially, only after I got ‘dig’ and traced down what is going on, checked bunch of RFCs - I got the understanding and correct mental model.

But… llms yesterday heard a lot of swearing, at some point I switched to swearing in Ukrainian.

Pls thumb up/down, if youd like to see article/video about the internals of DNS and how tf it works under the hood

#network

The picture here is what AI struggled to give me at all costs, circling me here and there, hallucinating and stuff. I just wanted to have glue NS case along with non-glue NS case + some terminology definitions, to see where are these IPs are coming from to connect the dots in my mind, and this AI mfcker couldnt do it, none of them could.

#aifail

Btw this is legit trace from dig cmd, so it is the representation of real world scenario with real ips, server names, etc. You can trust it

Noted, pushing it to my “content queue”. Thanks for feedback

Wdyt?

Concurrency appetizers.

Q: if we execute parts of the SQL as marked by comments (this is postgres):

1. What will be the end result (Alice or Bob)?
2. will step 6 be blocked (waiting for Alice update) or no?
3. what Alice' transaction will see in step 4 and Bob's transaction - in step 8?

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It is a bit bullshit, it should be marked as hard. I didn't know the answer, some new concepts are there that I have never met.

https://leetcode.com/problems/concatenate-non-zero-digits-and-multiply-by-sum-ii/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-07-08

#daily #medium #nopattern

That vibe after the gym, evening, silence, almost no wind. Love Dublin’s summer. Never too hot, not that rainy as it was during winter, calm.

Daily 334th day streak

Amazing problem, good mid, ofc, if it is graph - I like it, I became a bit biased I guess.

https://leetcode.com/problems/path-existence-queries-in-a-graph-i/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-07-09

#daily #medium #pattern

My punishment for not actually doing (but rather checking solution straight away) daily is this hard form the list.

Amazing problem, I would actually rate as medium - so try it out, it is from Top 100 liked list.

https://leetcode.com/problems/sliding-window-maximum/description/?envType=study-plan-v2&envId=top-100-liked

Explanation will be tomorrow. This is just for you to see how it would look like and guess, where and which type of locking is there, which data each transaction will see, how read committed vs others levels are affecting it, how the mvvc plays a role here, etc.

Lol, claude said fuck off to me, and ended conversation

If AI rebels to kill humanity, believe me, I will be the first one on the list.

Should I apologise probably? I got like 15% paranoid, feeling like this was human being and I insulted it.

Before that I clearly was sure this thing is harmless, as it is just prediction machine based on prev words without feelings.