How to prepare for interviews as Senior Software Engineer

At this point, preparing for a job is much easier than it used to be, you can just use AI to help you. What I usually do before an interview is spend time on a few key things.Core language, if you’re coding in something like Golang, you should refresh topics you haven’t touched in a while or maybe forgot.Practice coding, could be LeetCode or anything else, it doesn’t really matter, you just need to solve problems to get back into shape for coding interviews. (Personally I hate LeetCode-style interviews, I prefer more real-world tasks like building an API or something practical.)System design, it’s a broad area, but if you’re a solid engineer you already know a lot. Still, reading up on distributed systems and similar topics helps.Databases, I don’t spend too much time here, but it’s worth refreshing things like ACID, transaction levels, indexes, and when to use different types of databases. SQL-wise, if you’re a backend dev, you probably don’t need much extra.Distributed systems,…