.NET Interview Questions and Answers: 800+ Questions for Beginners, Seniors & Architects

AI keeps evolving, and AI skills are becoming mandatory for engineers. In this article, we look at how companies assess these skills today and which approach you can use in your interview process: six formats, a rubric, and a 60-minute template.

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This week: bool.dev explains how Raft commits writes and survives failures; Uber composes search indexes across independently owned services; Meta moves reusable privacy checks into data-access libraries; and LinkedIn connects user interactions to backend traces with OpenTelemetry.

How Raft keeps several servers in agreement when any of them can crash: one leader, a majority vote, and a write that counts only after most servers store it. Explained step by step, with diagrams and no math.

The habits that got you promoted, like having the answer first and closing tasks yourself, slow your team down once you manage it. Here are six things I'd tell every new engineering manager, with a concrete action for each.