8 parts · 10 chapters
Interviewing at Staff Level
How senior and staff interviews actually run, what each round is measuring, and how to show it. Staff loops reward the same things as the job: framing ambiguous problems, making trade-offs explicit, and showing influence beyond your own code.
Eight parts: the loop stage by stage; coding rounds; frontend system design; backend system design; behavioural and leadership rounds with STAR stories; a question bank drawn from every Learna course with links back to where each is taught; mock rounds with scoring rubrics; and negotiating the offer.
loopRecruiter, screens, onsite, debrief, offer: what each decides.
codingClarify, plan, code, test, analyse: out loud.
designRequirements, estimates, a simple design, then deep dives.
storiesEight STAR stories that cover every leadership question.
practiceTimed mocks scored against the interviewer's rubric.
offerCompeting offers, levels, and total compensation.
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The Loop by Stage
Stages and signals
1 ch · ~8 min01Coding Rounds
Patterns and practice
1 ch · ~8 min02Frontend System Design
Five prompts in outline
1 ch · ~8 min03Backend System Design
Estimation and prompts
1 ch · ~8 min04Behavioural and Leadership
Stories with decisions and numbers
1 ch · ~8 min05A Question Bank Across Learna
Frontend and runtime · Backend, data and distributed systems · Security, money, AI and leadership
3 ch · ~18 min06Mock Rounds
A six-week plan
1 ch · ~8 min07Negotiating
Scripts
1 ch · ~8 minDraws on every Learna courseThe question bank links each question to the course and part that teaches it.