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Shishir C.

Engineering manager, Software engineer, AI engineer, DevOps engineer, Staff software engineer
+ 1 other
India
4.33 (6 reviews)
14 clients (21% rebook rate)
Top 20% by job offer rate
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Shishir C.

Credits4 credits per 1h session
Engineering manager, Software engineer, AI engineer, DevOps engineer, Staff software engineer
+ 1 other
India
4.33 (6 reviews)
14 clients (21% rebook rate)
Top 20% by job offer rate
About

Engineering leader with experience at Google, Apple, Target, InMobi, and Cohesity, specializing in distributed systems and core platform engineering. With 1,000+ hours of mentorship and 57 interviews across top tech firms, I guide engineers on problem solving, system design, distributed systems, scalability, and interview success. An active open-source contributor to Elasticsearch, I blend real-world depth with practical mentorship to help mentees excel in Big Tech and startups.

Briefcase
Resume
Engineering Manager
Google
Interviewer
Resume Screener
Salary Negotiator
Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos
Bangalore, India
Director of Technology/ Principal Engineer
Target
Interviewer
Resume Screener
Salary Negotiator
Feb 2020 - Dec 2024 · 4 yrs 10 mos
Bangalore, India
Senior Computer Scientist
Adobe
Interviewer
Resume Screener
Jul 2019 - Jan 2020 ·  6 mos
Bangalore, India
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Interview coaching Interview coaching

With over 15 years of experience as a software engineer and engineering leader across top-tier organizations like Google, Apple, InMobi, Target, and Cohesity, I've had the privilege of experiencing both sides of the interview table extensively - as a candidate and as an interviewer.

This journey has given...

Resume review Resume review

Over the years, I've also developed a strong expertise in resume design, storytelling, and impact articulation - helping professionals translate their experience into crisp, outcome-driven narratives. Having reviewed and mentored hundreds of candidates, I've learned how to align resumes with recruiter expectations and technical depth, ensuring they stand out...

Career coaching Career coaching

With extensive experience as a senior engineer and engineering leader across Google, Apple, InMobi, Target, and Cohesity, I help professionals navigate key career decisions and transitions in the tech industry. My focus is on building depth in system design, scalability, distributed systems, and leadership - and translating that into...

Salary negotiation Salary negotiation

With years of experience navigating offers from companies like Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Uber, I’ve developed strong salary negotiation skills rooted in real market assessment and compensation benchmarking. I specialize in understanding company pay structures, leveling frameworks, and budget ranges through data-driven research and recruiter cues. Having successfully...

Grow at work
Leadership coaching Leadership coaching

I’ve helped professionals make a strong impact from day one in new roles, navigate complex organizational dynamics, and accelerate their growth into senior positions. My guidance focuses on building confidence, managing up effectively, handling difficult stakeholders, and overcoming challenges like burnout, lack of recognition, or cross-functional misalignment, and enabling...

Mentorship Mentorship

My mentorship plan is designed to help engineers systematically prepare for and crack top-tier tech companies on both IC and engineering management tracks. The program focuses on mastering problem solving, data structures, and algorithms, and translating those skills into scalable high- and low-level design. We’ll dive deep into distributed...

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Guido
Interview coaching · Mock interview
Shishir addressed the mock interview very professionally. Giving me actionable feedback and providing me confidence for the actual interview.
Guido got an offer
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Karthikeya
Interview coaching · Mock interview
I had an insightful mock interview session with Shishir as part of my preparation for the Google interview. Shishir gave me useful and actionable advice by telling me what I did well and truly valuable feedback on my blind spots. I noted them down and replayed in my mind before the interview. Thank you!
Karthikeya got an offer at Google
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Dhruv · Software engineer
Interview coaching · Behavioral mock interview
I connected with Shishir to prepare for my upcoming behavioral/googliness/leadership interview and wanted to get his perspective as a hiring manager, interviewer. My biggest challenge was structuring my stories and keeping them concise while ensuring my stories highlighted the necessary competencies for my targeted level. Shishir led with discussing where I was facing difficulty while preparing for the interview, provided precise feedback, which helped me get unblocked and make progress. He also shared the typical questions that I could expect during the interview and also give me reference frame as to how I should be timing my stories while leaving room for follow-up questions. He listened to 2 of my stories and was quickly able to provide me with actionable feedback to improve my story structure and communication. He offered helpful tips and shared his experiences as well, answering similar questions which were posed to him. As a result, it helped me narrow down my focus to the key competencies I needed to build my stories around, with clear actions, results and learnings. It helped me reduce verbosity in my stories, be clear and have a mental structure as I narrate my stories. In my actual interview, the experience was similar to what we discussed during the session, the prep helped me share my stories in a natural/conversational way and the interviewer was able to follow smoothly, asked follow up questions and was engaged. Overall it was a positive outcome for me.
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Credits4 credits
Per 1h session