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Turn gaps into a dated plan
Start at the first move in "Turn gaps into a dated plan" and carry it through to the proof.
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Before you apply, confirm you can tell all three cold: an at-scale infra project with before/after numbers, a real incident you ran (what broke, how you diagnosed it, the postmortem fix) and a deliberate cost-vs-reliability tradeoff you owned. Missing any one is a gap to close, not a story to fudge in the room.
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The final gut check
One question decides it: could you own the foundation under a product serving 1M+ DAUs, make a decisive cost-versus-reliability call and ship from week one on a flat, high-bar team? If every drill and recording points to yes, you're ready. Wherever a yes is faked, that's exactly where this week's reps go.
QYour mock scores are: no-AI coding 2, infra design 5, AWS/K8s depth 4, behavioral 4. How should you spend your prep week?