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Arjun R.

Engineering manager, Software engineer, Cloud engineer, DevOps engineer, Full-stack engineer, Program manager, QA engineer, Site reliability engineer, Staff software engineer, Technical program manager
Location iconNorth America
Location icon5.0 (4 reviews)
Location icon12 clients (25% rebook rate)
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Arjun R.

Credits4 credits per 1h session
Engineering manager, Software engineer, Cloud engineer, DevOps engineer, Full-stack engineer, Program manager, QA engineer, Site reliability engineer, Staff software engineer, Technical program manager
Location iconNorth America
Location icon5.0 (4 reviews)
Location icon12 clients (25% rebook rate)
BriefcaseExperience
2020-Present: Google, Engineering Manager, Seattle 2016-20: HBO, Senior Staff Engineer, Seattle 2014-16: F5 Networks, Senior Software Engineer, Seattle 2009-14: Microsoft, SDE

I'm Arjun, an Engineering Manager at Google with a background at HBO and Microsoft. Over the past 17+ years, I've led engineering teams, built scalable platforms, and driven technical strategy for products serving billions of users. I help software engineers, engineering managers, and tech professionals navigate FAANG interviews, advance their careers, master system design, and transition into leadership roles.

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Interview coaching Interview coaching

I am an experienced tech interviewer and have done over 200 interviews at Google, Microsoft, HBO, and F5. I have gotten past offers from Amazon, Uber, Lyft, and other tech companies. I have several years of experience interviewing managers and individual contributors at various levels. I have over a...

Resume review Resume review

As a hiring manager and coach, I have helped many folks improve their resumes. I help people understand how to highlight their work in their resumes to improve the number of interview calls they get in tough job markets.

Career coaching Career coaching

I have experience in career transitions within and outside the company. I can help you achieve and understand from several perspectives your goals of promotion, performance improvements, better leadership, etc. I enjoy helping people achieve their career goals while ensuring their well-being.

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Leadership coaching Leadership coaching

Throughout my 17+ years at Google, HBO, F5, and Microsoft, I've coached dozens of engineers through critical career moments. I've helped new Google hires make an immediate impact by establishing technical credibility and building key relationships.

I've guided engineers through L4 to L6+ promotions and role changes, focusing...

Mentorship Mentorship

I mentor engineers and engineering managers on technical and leadership skills that drive career success at top tech companies. My expertise spans platform architecture, distributed systems, team leadership, and strategic thinking from Google, HBO, and Microsoft.

I help mentees create personalized learning roadmaps for system design mastery or...

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Vijay · Engineering manager
Interview coaching · System design mock interview
Arjun is an outstanding coach with deep expertise in system design. After the mock interview, Arjun provided thoughtful feedback on specific areas for improvement. They were also very generous with their time and insights. I highly recommend Arjun to anyone preparing for a system design interview.
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Shalini · Engineering manager
Interview coaching · Coding mock interview
Arjun was incredibly generous with his time and great with precise, actionable just in time feedback, and made room for improvisations and for inline improvements to my leadership responses.. Helped customize the tone of the interview to my last minute needs.. additionally I really appreciated his performance on company specifics and also opening up for additional questions around the interview format etc
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Jp · Engineering manager
Interview coaching · System design mock interview
Arjun is an excellent coach with deep system knowledge. He helps pinpoint areas for improvement, which is incredibly beneficial. I highly recommend Arjun to anyone preparing for a system design interview.
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Credits4 credits
Per 1h session