About us
Welcome to the SDE Skills meetup! Congratulations on taking the first step towards improving your interviewing skills. We are committed to improving the core engineering skills essential for software engineers by building a community where SDEs and future-SDEs can exchange ideas, solicit feedback, nurture and grow their core skills.
We will also cover essentials of interviewing to enable you to assess talent better and also be better prepared for your interviews.
There are several ways to engage with the community.
• Discord: Join us in our active slack group - https://sdeskills.com/discord
• Facebook group: Subscribe to notifications and engage with our facebook community - [https://sdeskills.com/fb ](https://sdeskills.com/fb)
• YouTube: We record most of our sessions, subscribe to our channel to watch newer videos - https://sdeskills.com/youtube
We are always looking for volunteers, if you are interested in helping out please reach out to us on the slack #volunteering
About Us: SDE Skills is a volunteer led, 501c3 non-profit organization that has been helping improve the interviewing skills of the community since 2010.
All skill levels welcome!
- SDE Skills Admins
Upcoming events
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[Online Only] System Design Discussion
·OnlineOnlineJoin us for the system design discussion every Friday at 4 pm.
The agenda is here. Each time, we choose a topic or continue a previous topic and pick one or more volunteers to design this system. We follow the pattern in actual interviews without a time limit.
You can learn more from the discussion if you are familiar with system design. Here are some good websites:34 attendees
AI Fundamentals Series: LLM, Tokenization, Transformers, RAG, MCP and Agents
Kingsgate Library----Kirkland, 12315 NE 143rd St, Kirkland, WA, USPlease come prepared for a session on Modern AI Fundamentals Series: Understanding the MCP.
** Important Information **
- Please bring notepad / paper, pen and laptop.
- Join our discord group https://sdeskills.com/discord participate before, during and after the session.
Please RSVP in order to receive announcements regarding changes, and followed-up materials.
Keywords that describe our group:
Algorithms, Sorting (e.g., quicksort, mergesort), Searching (e.g., binary search), Dynamic programming, Greedy algorithms, Graph algorithms (e.g., Dijkstra's, DFS, BFS), Tree traversal and manipulation
Data Structures, Arrays and Strings, Linked Lists, Stacks and Queues, Trees (binary trees, AVL trees, etc.), Hashing, Heaps
Coding Paradigms, Divide and Conquer, Recursion, Sliding Window, Two-Pointer Technique
System Design Concepts, Distributed Systems, Scalability, Load Balancing, Caching, Database Design, Microservices Architecture
Coding Platforms and Tools, LeetCode, HackerRank, CodeSignal, IDEs (e.g., VSCode, IntelliJ), Version Control (e.g., Git)
Behavioral Questions, Teamwork and Collaboration, Problem-solving approach, Project Experiences, Handling Challenges, Communication skills
Mock Interviews, Practice Interviews, Whiteboarding, Code Reviews, Feedback and Improvement
Industry-Specific Knowledge, Web Development (HTTP, RESTful APIs), Database Management Systems (SQL, NoSQL), Operating Systems, Networking basics
Soft Skills, Problem-solving mindset, Time management, Communication skills, Adaptability, Continuous learning
Tips and Strategies, Time Complexity Analysis, Space Complexity Analysis, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Handling Edge Cases, Optimizing Code55 attendees[Online Only] System Design Discussion
·OnlineOnlineJoin us for the system design discussion every Friday at 4 pm.
The agenda is here. Each time, we choose a topic or continue a previous topic and pick one or more volunteers to design this system. We follow the pattern in actual interviews without a time limit.
You can learn more from the discussion if you are familiar with system design. Here are some good websites:14 attendees[Online Only] System Design Discussion
·OnlineOnlineJoin us for the system design discussion every Friday at 4 pm.
The agenda is here. Each time, we choose a topic or continue a previous topic and pick one or more volunteers to design this system. We follow the pattern in actual interviews without a time limit.
You can learn more from the discussion if you are familiar with system design. Here are some good websites:9 attendees
Past events
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