Read each company's own interview guidance first: Meta now expects candidates to use a built-in AI assistant, while Anthropic defaults to no AI. For question banks, pick ones that cite sources and are still maintained this year, such as the alexeygrigorev field guide, ombharatiya, and alirezadir. Only 2 of the 12 popular repos link sources for their questions, and some keep answers behind a paywall.
An elite-level engineer applied to over 300 jobs and failed every one, because the interview guides told him to stand his ground and have a backbone, and he read that as being hard-nosed. The interviewers' read: this is the 10x engineer, and I don't want him anywhere near my team. This lecture also gives the best criterion anyone has offered for vibe coding — technical debt.
Put drone jobs back into the five-layer supply chain and the picture clarifies: Layer 2 belongs to mechanical and electrical engineers, while Layer 3 — flight control firmware, sensor fusion, RF, edge AI — is the real entry point for software people, and also exactly the layer Taiwan is short on. But check the scale first: 267 companies and NT$12.9B of 2025 output means far fewer openings than the news volume suggests.