InterviewCrafted Methodology & Authors
InterviewCrafted is a primary-source platform derived from direct analysis of real system design interviews, production architectures, and interviewer evaluation patterns — not scraped summaries or generic prep material.
Our content and practice framework are built from first-hand review of how senior engineers reason about open-ended problems, how interviewers accept or reject answers, and how production systems fail and scale. We focus on evaluation logic and "why interviewers say yes or no" — the reference standard for how senior engineers think in interviews.
What Makes This Framework Different
- Years of experience in system design, distributed systems, and production architecture — not generic tutorial writing.
- Types of systems designed — from high-throughput APIs to real-time pipelines and large-scale data systems.
- Interviews analyzed — patterns from how candidates are evaluated, common red flags, and what signals "hire" vs "no-hire" in design discussions.
- Failure-first and trade-off focus — we emphasize how systems fail, how to reason about constraints, and how to articulate trade-offs the way senior engineers do.
This methodology underpins all our Architectural Thinking articles, practice problems, and AI feedback. For more about our beliefs and contact, see About.