The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo: Engineering Jobs, Interviews, and FAANG Career Strategy

Lucas and Luna break down how FAANG engineers negotiate equity compensation — RSUs, refreshers, and the signing bonus trade-off. Using a real case of a Facebook offer from 2022, they explain why the four-year cliff matters, how to read a stock-based total comp sheet, and why negotiating RSU count is harder than salary. They also cover which levers actually move: sign-on bonus, annual cash bonus ta...

In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna unpack why system design interviews at FAANG companies test fundamentally different skills than coding interviews. They walk through the infamous 'design Twitter' question, explain how interviewers evaluate trade-offs over correct answers, and share concrete preparation strategies that go beyond memorizing whiteboard diagrams. Lucas breaks...

Lucas and Luna break down the specific strategies and scripts engineers can use to negotiate their first job offer in tech. Using the real case of a bootcamp grad who turned an $85,000 offer into $110,000 at a Series B startup, they walk through the exact preparation steps, the timing of when to bring up compensation, and how to frame counteroffers. Lucas shares a counterintuitive finding from a 2...

In this debut episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna dissect the story of Sarah Chen, a self-taught engineer who landed a job at Google without a traditional computer science degree. They examine her strategy: building a portfolio of five open-source contributions, networking through 40 informational interviews, and acing the system design round. Lucas breaks down the numbers behind he...