Phone Interview Tips in 2026: How to Nail the First Screen and Move Forward

A phone screen is short (usually 20 to 30 minutes) but it carries real weight. Recruiters use it to decide who moves forward and who gets quietly filtered out. For internship and entry-level candidates, this call is often your first …

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Betsy Davies Associate Director of Employer Engagement and Career Advocacy
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How to Get Work Experience This Summer Without an Internship

Getting work experience when you’ve never worked before can feel like a paradox. You need job skills to get hired, but you often need experience to build those skills.

While many students turn to internships for their first professional experience, …

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45+ AI Engineer Interview Questions & Answers (2026 Guide)

AI engineer interview questions show up inside software engineer, ML engineer, and forward-deployed loops at AI-first companies.

They test whether you can build and serve an LLM-backed product under real constraints: inference batching, RAG, agent design, cost and token budgets, …

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Apple System Design Interview (2026 Guide)

The Apple system design interview is one of the most unpredictable in big tech, and that unpredictability is by design.

Because every Apple team runs its own hiring process, the format, duration, and domain focus of the system design round …

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Forward Deployed Engineer Interview: The Definitive 2026 Guide (FDE)

If you’re preparing for a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) interview at Palantir, OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks, Scale AI, ElevenLabs, Ramp, or any of the dozens of AI-native companies now hiring for this role, this guide is built to be the single …

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Meta Product Sense Interview (2026 Guide)

Meta’s product sense round asks you to design a product from scratch, defend your decisions under follow-up pressure, and (increasingly) prototype your solution live using AI tools.

Verified: This article is based on firsthand accounts from Meta PM candidates …

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Google’s AI-Assisted Coding Interview (2026 Guide)

Google is overhauling its hiring process for software engineers.

AI is at the center of the change.

According to an internal document, Google is piloting a new interview format that allows software engineering candidates to use an approved AI assistant …

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How to handle interview questions about skills you haven’t fully developed yet

By: Keith Spencer, Career Expert with AI resume builder Resume Now

In any job interview, it’s perfectly normal to encounter questions about things you haven’t done before or skills you’ve yet to develop. After all, if we only applied for …

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Engineering Career & Co-op Center Newsletter

March 23, 2026

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By Betsy Davies
Betsy Davies Associate Director of Employer Engagement and Career Advocacy
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